Darcie Dennigan is the author of four books of poetry—the forthcoming Commander! as well as Madame X, Palace of Subatomic Bliss, and Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, which won Fordham’s Poetry Out Loud prize. Her manuscript Forever Valley was a finalist for the New Direction/Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize in 2023, and her plays have received the George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation fellowship and the Poetry Society of America’s Anna Rabinowitz award. She has taught at the University of Connecticut, Sarah Lawrence, Rhode Island School of Design, and elsewhere. She directs the Spatulate Church Emergency Shift, an ad hoc poets theater group.