Caryl Pagel holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MFAs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Twice Told (University of Akron Press) and Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death (Factory Hollow Press). Her poetry and prose has appeared in AGNI, The Collagist, Entropy, The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and The Paris Review, among other journals. Caryl is the cofounder and editor of Rescue Press, a poetry editor at jubilat, and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She is an assistant professor at Cleveland State University, where she teaches poetry and nonfiction for undergraduates and in the NEOMFA program. She is the recipient of grants and residencies from Cleveland State University, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, and the Ohio Arts Council.