Sandra M. Gilbert has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Belongings (W.W. Norton, 2005), and a number of prose volumes, the latest of which is Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve (W. W. Norton, 2006). A Professor Emerita at the University of California, Davis, she is working on a study of literary foodways tentatively titled Eating Words. Her work appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 15. (2008)