Paula Closson Buck has published a novel excerpt in The Southern Review and has another short story forthcoming there. She is the author of two books of poems, The Acquiescent Villa (Louisiana State University Press, 1998) and Litanies Near Water (Louisiana State University Press, 2008). In addition to teaching creative writing at Bucknell University, for eleven years she edited West Branch, published out of Bucknell’s Stadler Center for Poetry. She is currently in Cyprus on a Fulbright Grant, working in collaboration with two Cypriot visual artists.