Laurie Clements Lambeth, author of the National Poetry Series selection Veil and Burn, is a poet, artist, and essayist. Her lyric nonfiction appears in Crab Orchard Review, the Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere, with recent poems in Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Crazyhorse. Concurrently working on a hybrid memoir and her second poetry collection, she teaches at the University of Houston.*