Christine Stewart’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Five Points, Blackbird, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Maryland, is a recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Currently, she is the Literary Arts program director with the Maryland State Arts Council and directs Maryland’s Poetry Out Loud program. Her poems appear in Smartish Pace issues 9 and 10. [bio updated 2013]