Jeannine Hall Gailey recently served as the Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington, and is the author of three other books of poetry: Unexplained Fevers, She Returns to the Floating World, and Becoming the Villainess. Her work has been featured on APM's Writer's Almanac, Verse Daily and was included in The Year's Best Horror. Her poems have appeared The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and Prairie Schooner.