Sue Standing’s previous books of poetry include Amphibious Weather, Deception Pass, and Gravida. She is the recipient of several grants, including residencies from Hawthornden Castle, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She is Professor of English at Wheaton College (Norton, Massachusetts), where she directs the Creative Writing program.