Ann Lauterbach grew up in New York City and studied literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Princeton University, the City College of New York, and has been a visiting art critic at the Yale Graduate School of the Arts. Currently, she lives in Germantown, N.Y., where she is Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College and co-Chair of Writing in Bard’s MFA Program. She is the author of many books of poetry, including Under the Sign (2013); Or to Begin Again (2009), which was nominated for the National Book Award; Hum (2005); If in Time: Selected Poems 1975–2000 (2001); On a Stair (1997); And for Example (1994); Clamor (1991); Before Recollection (1987); and Many Times, but Then (1979).