Katie Jean Shinkle’s books include Tannery Bay (FC2/University of Alabama Press, coauthored with Steven Dunn). Other work can be found in or is forthcoming from Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance (Sarabande Books), The Nation, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Arts from the University of Denver, and she serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM.