Wendy Lotterman's A Reaction to Someone Coming In exhibits sangfroid as an excess. It's so poised, cerebral, and scrupulous that if you blink you might miss that the underlying subtext of these poems is eros. Sex and love, girlhood and motherhood, are always in transition, dematerialized, and slightly comic in a way reminiscent of Katy Lederer's work. These almost casually flawless pieces hum with a plucky percussion à la Joyelle McSweeney, forgo lyricism and metaphor in favor of concepts and taxonomy, and reinvent the prose poem into a cool continuous plane. 
– Ken Chen, author of Juvenilia

Wendy Lotterman is a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Oslo and Associate Editor at Parapraxis, a psychoanalytic magazine. Poems appear in BOMB, Chicago Review, and the Poetry Foundation. Intense Holiday, a chapbook, was published by After Hours LTD in 2016