Jean A. Kingsley earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and lives in Rochester, New York. She is the recipient of the 1995 Academy of American Poets Prize, a finalist for “Discovery”/The Nation and The Constance Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, River Oak Review, American Literary Review, Excursus Literary Arts Journal, Eclipse, and Poetry Lore, among others. Recently her poems have appeared in Amethyst Arsenic, Damselfly, Storyscape Journal, Stone Highway Review, Apeiron Review, Cactus Heart, and Columbia Poetry Review. She won a poetry book award for Traceries from ABZ Press in 2014, selected by C. D. Wright, and is a recent reviewer for the Antioch Review. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.