Lauren Davis is the author of the chapbooks Each Wild Thing's Consent and The Missing Ones. She holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Davis lives on the Olympic Peninsula in a Victorial seaport community.

These poems showcase frustrations and deep-rooted hungers so authentically human we almost catch the heartbeat's throb in each line we ghost over. Every part of nature - the lover, the moon, snow, the sky, hummingbirds mating, a heard of elks - is worshiped on these pages, and with its incantations about how a woman resides within the (un)holy rooms of her body's longing and belongings, Home Beneath the Church crafts a home, a sanctuary, for any reader to cohabitate with the language of the prismatic familial and sacred.