Sarah Manguso’s memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008) was named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Time Out Chicago. She has published two poetry collections, Siste Viator(2006) and The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002). She has been awarded a Hodder Fellowship, the Rome Prize, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Manguso lives in Los Angeles.