Christen Noel Kauffman is a 2022 National Poetry Series finalist and author of Notes to a Mother God (2021), which was a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Chapbook Series. Her work can be found in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays (University of Nebraska Press), Tupelo Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, DIAGRAM, Smokelong Quarterly, and Pleiades, among others.