Gail Mazur’s seventh collection is Forbidden City (2016). Previous collections include Figures in a Landscape; Zeppo’s First Wife: New & Selected Poems, winner of the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award, and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and They Can’t Take That Away from Me, finalist for the National Book Award. She is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and Founding Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge.