Sandra McPherson’s books include twelve with Ecco, Wesleyan University Press, University of Illinois Press, and Ostrakon. Her latest collection, Quicksilver, Cougars, and Quartz, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry Press (Ireland). New work will be found in Pedestal, The Iowa Review, Field, Poetry, TriQuarterly, Ecotone, Plume, Agni, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Nine Mile Magazine, Red Wheelbarrow, and Epoch. She taught for twenty-three years at University of California at Davis and four at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the founding editor of Swan Scythe Press.