Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is a poet and photographer, born in White Plains and raised in Buffalo, New York. She received a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon before earning an MFA in creative writing from the University of Illinois. A finalist for the Mid-American Review James Wright Poetry Award (2008) and the New Issues Press Poetry Prize (2009), she is the winner of the 2010 Alligator Juniper National Poetry Prize. The Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in English at Williams College, Bertram lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.