Jacqueline Berger is the author of The Mythologies of Danger (Bluestem, 1997)—recipient of the Bluestem Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award—and Things That Burn (Utah, 2005), chosen by Mark Strand for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. She is the Director of the Master of Arts in English Program at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. Her work appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 15. (2008)