Caitlin Bailey is the author of Solve for Desire, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and winner of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, selected by Srikanth Reddy. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Carolina Quarterly, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Loft Mentor Series award, she received an MFA from Hamline University and lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Inspired by the mysterious and intense relationship of the Trakl siblings, Solve for Desire is a keening exploration of desire between brother and sister, poet and subject, the living and the dead.
