Kathy Fagan is the author of several poetry collections, including The Raft, a National Poetry Series selection; Moving & St Rage, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize; and Sycamore (2016). Her work has been included in several anthologies, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women and Poet’s Choice by Edward Hirsch among them. She has served as the director of creative writing and the MFA program at the Ohio State University, where she is a professor of English.