Elizabeth Metzger's second full-length collection Lying In came out with Milkweed Editions in April, 2023. Her next book is coming out with Milkweed in late 2025. She is also the author of The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, as well as the chapbooks The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and Bed, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, NYRB, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, APR, and Poem-a-Day. Her prose has appeared in Conjunctions, Lit Hub, Guernica, and elsewhere. She has received support for her work from The Corporation of Yaddo and Columbia University and teaches at institutions such as 92NY, Columbia University, and Poets and Writers. Metzger lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and co-hosts the reading series The Long Freeway: Poets Read Los Angeles.