Elisa Gabbert is the author of THE FRENCH EXIT (Birds, LLC, 2010) and the chapbooks Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press, 2207) and, with Kathleen Rooney, That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008), a collaborative collection. She is the poetry editor of Absent (http: //www.absentmag.org/) and currently works at a software startup in downtown Boston. She blogs at http: //thefrenchexit.blogspot.com/.