JM Farkas is the author of "Be Brave: An Unlikely Manual for Erasing Heartbreak," an erasure of "Beowulf" via blackout poetry. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, and her poetry is in literary magazines such as "Boxcar Poetry Review" and "Forklift, Ohio." Her next book, "How to Be a Poet," an erasure of Ovid, will be released by Andrews McMeel in 2019.