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Sarah Lindsay is the author of four poetry collections, including Primate Behavior, a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award, and Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). The recipient of the 2012 Carolyn Kizer Prize, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, Lindsay is employed as a copyeditor at numerous publications.

Best Advice

by Sarah Lindsay

I suspect that the best advice I ever received was so right, so needed, that it slipped into my skull and made its home as though it had always been there. What I actually remember is probably the next-best advice.

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