Joni Wallace grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Moab, Utah. She is the author of Redshift (Kore Press, 2000) and her recent poems appear in Barrow Street; Boston Review; Conduit; Connotations Press, An Online Artifact; Forklift, Ohio; Laurel Review and No Tell Motel. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and currently lives in the Southwest with her husband, John, and their two young children.