Caitlin Roach is a poet from California. She earned an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Provost Fellow and recipient of a Postgraduate Fellowship. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2017, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, Tin House, The Journal, West Branch, Copper Nickel, Prelude, Handsome, and The Iowa Review, and her manuscript inherit was recently selected as a semifinalist for the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she is an assistant professor in residence.