Chelsea Dingman is a Canadian citizen and Instructor at the University of South Florida. Her first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). She has work forthcoming in The Sycamore Review (Winner of the Wabash Prize), The Southeast Review (Winner of the Gearhart Poetry Contest), Water~Stone Review (Winner of the Jane Kenyon Prize), Colorado Review, Cincinnati Review, and Gulf Coast, among others.