In these 29 poems, Effiwatt's deft and delicate poetics uses language as cursor to map conclusions drawn from a series of mutating, karmic life cycles. Marlene Effiwatt is from Tucson Arizona. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Provost fellow. She is currently the recipient of a Pflughaut Fellowship in Poetry. Her work has appeared in PromptPress and The Iowa Review.