Liz Bowen is a writer and literary scholar living in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection Sugarblood (Metatron 2017) and the chapbook Compassion Fountain (Hyacinth Girl Press 2018), and her poetry and essays have been published in Boston Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Dream Pop Press, The Atlas Review, glitterMOB, and elsewhere. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where she is working on a dissertation that traces disability and animality as intertwined sites of literary experimentation in the long twentieth century. She also teaches undergraduate writing, works on the poetry staff at Anomaly, and cares for a rescue pit bull named Rosie.