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 recognition from Seattle Review, Diner, Lumina, Black Warrior Review, Phoebe and the Academy of American Poets, and appears or is forthcoming in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Five Fingers Review and Failbetter, among others. She has received fellowships from Indiana University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and she currently works as a book designer and illustrator. She lives in Brooklyn.