Chelsea Woodard, a finalist in Narrative’s Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of three poetry collections, including At the Lepidopterist’s House, winner of the 2022 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Book Award. In addition, her work is included in the anthologies In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy and Poetry Is Bread (2025). She earned an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of North Texas, and she teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.