Molly Kugel is the author of Groundcover (Tolsun 2022), and the chapbooks, sky, lotus, dust (dancing girl press 2023) and The Forest of the Suburbs (Five Oaks 2015); her book, Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic. Her writing has appeared most recently in Plant-Human Quarterly, Bennington Review, Mid-American Review, Subtropics, and Josephine Quarterly. She earned a PhD in English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, is the ecology editor for Cordella Press, teaches writing for University of Colorado Denver, and is a consulting nonfiction editor for the Copper Nickel.