Rosa Lane, poet and architect, is author of four poetry collections, including Chouteau’s Chalk, Tiller North, and Roots and Reckonings. Her work won the 2018 William Matthews Poetry Prize and a Maine Literary Award and is forthcoming or has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Cutthroat, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, RHINO Poetry, River Heron Review, Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and a PhD in sustainable architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She splits her time between her native home in coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her wife.