Disaster Porn

B.K. Fischer is the author of Ceive, a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, and four previous collections of poetry—Radioapocrypha (Mad Creek/Ohio State UP, 2018), My Lover’s Discourse (Tinderbox Editions, 2018), St. Rage’s Vault (The Word Works, 2013), and Mutiny Gallery (Truman State UP, 2011). Ceive, a dystopian novel in verse that re-envisions the Noah’s Ark story on a container ship in the near future, was produced as a short film, Robust Admixture, with Axial Theater Company, directed by Cady McClain. Fischer is also the author of a critical study of poetry and the visual arts, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (2006). She holds a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia, and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from NYU. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry International, Poetry Northwest, Boston Review, Jacket2, FIELD, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Studies, Poetry London, and elsewhere. She was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Westchester County, New York, from 2021 to 2023, and received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship to conduct the Floodwaters Workshops, outdoor eco-writing workshops for youth at sites of flooding and flood risk in the Hudson Valley. For the past eleven years, she has taught The Comma Sutra, a graduate seminar on grammar and syntax for creative practice, in the School of the Arts Writing Program at Columbia University, and she also teaches in the community. She lives with her family—a husband, three coming-and-going almost-grown children, and a goldendoodle named Oakleigh—in Sleepy Hollow, New York.