Jennifer Burd is author of two previous full-length books of poetry, Days Late Blue and Body and Echo, and a chapbook with CD, Receiving the Shore, of some of her seasonal poetry set to music by Laszlo Slomovits, She is also author of a book of creative nonfiction, Daily Bread: A Portrait of Homeless Men & Women of Lenawee County, Michigan. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print journals and anthologies. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and has taught literature at Jackson Community College, Jackson, Michigan, and creative writing through The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis.