Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer is a poet and installation artist and the author of the poetry collections Well Waiting Room (Fordham University Press, 2021) and Cleavemark (BOAAT Press, 2016), as well as the children’s book The Cloud Lasso (Penny Candy Books, 2019). Schlaifer earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and her BA/BFA from WashU. Her work has appeared in Bomb, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, and Ploughshares, among many others.