Carol Quinn received her doctorate from the University of Houston in 2005, where she received C. Glenn Cambor and Donald Barthelme Fellowships in Creative Writing. She also holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Southern California. Her poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, The American Literary Review, The National Poetry Review, The Emily Dickinson Journal, The American Book Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere. ACETYLENE is Carol Quinn's first book of poems.