Knar recently completed their doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, where they served as the Poetic Practice Fellow at the Kelly Writers House. Their dissertation, "'Fend for Meaningful Speech': Matters of Social Fact in Post-9/11 Docupoetry," attends to the prefigurative political possibilities that emerge in documentary and ecopoetry. Broadly speaking, Knar is interested in the shifting role of documentary and investigative poetry amidst environmental crisis—including how poetry might work through invitational re-socializing modes to enlist accomplices, allies, and co-conspirators in active, material forms of dissent from planetary collapse. Accordingly, Knar thinks a lot about the vectors through which US militarism and policing safeguard, abet, and accelerate drivers of global environmental change. They currently teach in the department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, and they hold graduate degrees from Syracuse (MA 2016) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA, 2013), where they received a John C. Schupes fellowship for their manuscript Cotor: Excerpts from Variable Road. Knar is also an environmental justice organizer engaged in efforts to oppose extractive industries and ecocidal development projects. They are the author of Vela (the Operating System, 2019) and recent poetry and other writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Tiny Mag, Annulet, River Styx, ballast, Notre Dam Review, NiCHE, DIAGRAM, and the Georgia Review, among others.