Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of the poetry collection But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. She received first place in the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars poetry contest, and her poem “I Was a Barking Dog” won Second Place in Narrative’s Second Annual Poetry Contest. Bertram is a graduate of the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Illinois and was a 2009–2011 Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College.