KATHLEEN LYNCH lives in Loomis, California. Literary journals that have published her poems include Ascent, Bakunin, Chariton Review, Exquisite Corpse, Midwest Quarterly, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her recent fiction appears in The Next Parish Over, an anthology of Irish-American writing from New Rivers Press. She has participated in Poets in the Schools and is on the advisory board for the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University.