Julia Spicher Kasdorf is associate professor of English and women’s studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of two other poetry collections: Eve’s Striptease and Poetry in America. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and Poetry, as well as numerous anthologies, including the 2003 Pushcart collection. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Kasdorf is also the author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life and Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.