_^(she/her) A recipient of support from the Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Tieger is a doctoral candidate in the University of Southern California’s Literature and Creative Writing program. As a 2023 Wrigley Institute fellow, her ecopoetic practice led to a qualitative study of communities surrounding the Santa Susana Field Lab. Recent related work appears, or is forthcoming in, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, Blackbird, Cimarron Review, Permafrost, Vassar Review, The Indianapolis Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. Her manuscript, Disaster Tourist, is a 2023 National Poetry Series finalist.