Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living in Iowa City, IA. She is the author of the digital chapbook The Love of God (Inpatient Press, 2016) and The Land Was V There (89+/LUMA, 2014). Her translation of Juana Isola’s chapbook You Need a Long Table Behind a Pile of Firewood to Have Lunch with Your Children in Ray Bans was published by Monster House Press in 2018. She recently directed and performed in a staging of a play by Bernadette Mayer (Public Space One, Iowa City) and will be a poet-in-residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency this summer.