Martha Silano is the author of three books of poems, most recently The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (Saturnalia), an Academy of American Poets Noted Book of 2011. Poems have appeared in Paris Review, Kenyon Review Online, North American Review, and elsewhere. A forthcoming collection, Reckless Lovely, will appear from Saturnalia Books in early 2014. Martha teaches at Bellevue College and serves as poetry editor for Crab Creek Review.