Kathleen Ossip is the author of three books of poetry: The Do-Over, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice; The Cold War, which was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011; and The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Her book July is forthcoming. She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.