Joyce Peseroff’s most recent books are Eastern Mountain Time (Carnegie Mellon) and Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon (Graywolf). She served as the first managing editor of Ploughshares, later editing her own issue (8/1), as well as acting as poetry editor and co-editor for the 20th anniversary issue. She teaches at UMass Boston, where she directed the MFA program for its first four years.