Elisa Gabbert is the author of The Self Unstable and The French Exit. L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems is forthcoming from Black Ocean in 2016. Recent poems and essays have appeared in Catapult, Diagram, Harvard Review, Jubilat, Threepenny Review, and The Smart Set. Her monthly writing advice column, “The Blunt Instrument,” appears on Electric Literature.