Mary Buchinger is the author of four collections of poetry, including e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling, Aerialist (shortlisted for the May Swenson Poetry Award, OSU Press Wheeler Prize, and the Perugia Press Prize) and Navigating the Reach (forthcoming). Her work has appeared in AGNI, Salamander, Slice Magazine, Boston Globe, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. She is president of the New England Poetry Club and teaches at MCPHS University in Boston. (www.marybuchinger.com)