Beverly Burch is the author of four poetry collections, including Latter Days of Eve, which won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press, and Sweet to Burn, which won the the Gival Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She has also written two books on psychoanalytic theory and women's sexual/gender identifications: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). She lives in Oakland, California.