Simone White is the author of multiple books, most recently, or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022). Her poetry and prose have been featured in publications including Artforum, e-flux, and Harper’s Magazine. Her honors include a 2021 Creative Capital Award, a 2017 Whiting Award in Poetry, Cave Canem Foundation fellowships, and recognition as a New American Poet for the Poetry Society of America in 2013. She is the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the writing faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She lives in Brooklyn.