Patricia Carlin's previous books include QUANTUM JITTERS (Marsh Hawk Press, 2009) and ORIGINAL GREEN (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), as well as Shakespeare's Mortal Men. She has published widely in journals and anthologies such as Boulevard, BOMB, Verse, American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, POOL, The Literary Review, The Manhattan Review, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency; and she has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and VCCA. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The New School, and she co-edits the poetry journal Barrow Street.