Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); Born2 (Chax Press); and Green-World, originally published by Factory School with a new edition in 2018 from Nightboat Books. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, and many other journals. She works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland, Oregon, where she co-hosts The Switch reading, art, and performance series and performs in the collaboration Suspended Moment.