J.M. Farkas is the author of Be Brave and How to Be a Poet, erasures of Beowulf and Ovid, respectively. Her poems can be found in publications such as Hanging Loose, Boxcar Poetry Review, and Forklift, Ohio, and her essays appear in Electric Literature and the New York Times. Her first children's book, an erasure of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, will be published by Abrams in fall 2021, followed by a picture book biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay.