Maria Terrone is the author of two poetry collections—A Secret Room in Fall, co-winner of the McGovern Prize (Ashland Poetry Press, 2006) and The Bodies We Were Loaned (Word Works, 2002)—and a chapbook, American Gothic, Take 2 (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her Pushcart Prize-nominated work has appeared in magazines including Poetry International, Poetry, and The Hudson Review, and in nearly twenty anthologies. Visit mariaterrone.com.