Bethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation, which won the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her work has been selected to appear in Best American Poetry 2015 and is published in journals such as American Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, and Sixth Finch. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho, where she teaches at Idaho State University.