Elise Paschen is the author of, most recently, Tallchief, as well as The Nightlife (named one of the top poetry books of 2017 by the Chicago Review of Books), Bestiary, Infidelities (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), and Houses: Coasts. As an undergraduate at Harvard, she received the Garrison Medal for poetry. She holds M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. A recipient of the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs Medal, she is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. Her poems have been published widely, including Poetry Magazine, A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. She has edited numerous anthologies, including The Eloquent Poem, and is a co-founder of Poetry in Motion, a nation-wide program which places poetry placards in buses and subways. Dr. Paschen teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.