Christen Noel Kauffman is author of The Science of Things We Can Believe which won the 2023 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry, and the chapbook Notes to a Mother God (2021).  She is a 2022 National Poetry Series finalist. Her work can be found in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays (University of Nebraska Press), Copper Nickel, Tupelo Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, DIAGRAM, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. Find Christen on Instagram and BlueSky.