Gretchen Primack’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Best New Poets, and The Antioch Review, among other journals, and in a chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line Press, 2007). She lives in the Hudson Valley, where she teaches and advises with the Bard Prison Initiative. Her website is www.gretchenprimack.com.