Jennifer Bullis grew up in Reno, Nevada, and attended college and graduate school in California. While finishing a PhD in English at UC Davis, she and her husband, seeking a green place to live, moved to western Washington. She taught writing and literature at Whatcom Community College for fourteen years before sneaking away to write, hike, and chase after their son. Her poems appear in journals and anthologies including Iron Horse Literary Review, Natural Bridge, Conversations Across Borders, The Comstock Review, Floating Bridge Review/Pontoon, Cascadia Review, Clover, and Umbrella. She served on the Board of the Whatcom Poetry Series and blogs about "Poetry at the Intersection of Mythology and Hiking" at www.jenniferbullis.wordpress.com. She lives in Bellingham with her family, which, by her current reckoning, includes a horse, two cats, andtoo many feathered, furry, and leafy creatures to count.