Mary Austin Speaker is co-founder of Triptych Readings and recent curator of Reading Between A & B poetry series in New York City, which pairs emerging and established writers. She has been Poetry Editor of Indiana Review at Indiana University, where she was also an Associate Instructor of Creative Writing. Her work has received awards from Seattle Review, Diner, Lumina, Iowa Review, and the Academy of American Poets, and appears or is forthcoming in Sentence, Boston Review and Konundrum Literary Engine Review. She has received fellowships from Indiana University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and she currently works as an art director for Ecco and Smithsonian Books, two imprints of HarperCollins Publishers. She lives in Brooklyn.