Sandy Longhorn received her MFA from the University of Arkansas. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Stream, River Styx, Shenandoah and Sonora Review. The poem that appears in this issue is part of Blood Almanac, which was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award and a semifinalist for the Bakeless Literary Prize in Poetry. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 12.