Eventually an expert came, hooded her, and took her away

Elizabeth Cantwell is a poet and high school teacher living in Claremont, California. Her poetry collection Nights I Let the Tiger Get You (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), was a finalist for the 2012 Hudson Prize. Cantwell is also the author of a chapbook, Premonitions (Grey Book Press, 2014), and has contributed poems to a variety of journals, including PANKCincinnati Review, Los Angeles Review, DIAGRAM, and Missouri Review.