Cecily Parks is the editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses, and the author of three poetry collections, including most recently The Seeds, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Her poems appear in the New Yorker, A Public Space, the New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2022, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and lives in Austin, Texas.