Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming, in Nerve Cowboy, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Slant, Spillway, and many other journals. Critical essays appear in The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King's Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror, and elsewhere.