Gretchen Primack's poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, FIELD, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. She is the author of a previous poetry collection, Kind (Post Traumatic Press, 2013) and a chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line, 2007). Primack has worked as a union organizer, working women's advocate, and prison educator. Also an advocate for non- human animals, she co-wrote The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals (Penguin Avery, 2012) with Jenny Brown. She lives in the Hudson Valley.