Bethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation, winner of the Anhinga Poetry Prize and finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2015 and in journals such as the Gettysburg Review, Narrative, and Ploughshares. Recently named a Literary Arts Fellow by the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she is an associ¬ate professor at Idaho State University.