“Crude Futures” and “After the Amplify Energy Oil Spill”

Kristin George Bagdanov is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of California, Davis, where she is completing a dissertation on U.S. poetry and anti-nuclear activism. Articles relating to this project can be found in the Oxford Literary Review and Symplokē. She received an M.F.A. from Colorado State University and has two collections of poetry: Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean) and Diurne (Tupelo Press). You can find more of her work at kristingeorgebagdanov.com.