Cecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections, including The Seeds, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2025, and editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The New Republic, A Public Space, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. The poetry editor for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, she teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University.