Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A "darkly comic and unsettling" portrait of a woman working in AI, and technology's impact on connection and power (NPR, "Books We Love").Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don't exist. She workshops the facial characteristics of a floating head named "Nia," whom her boss calls "his type"; she loses hours researching "June," an oddly sexualized artificially in...

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Ryann Stevenson’s Human Resources isa sobering and perceptive portrait of technology’s impact on connection and power.Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don’t exist. In discerning verse, she workshops the facial characteristics of a floating head named “Nia,” who her boss calls “his type”; she loses hours researching “June,” an oddly sexualized artif...