Grace Bauer has published six books of poems--most recently, Unholy Heart: New & Selected Poems (Backwaters Press). She also co-edited (with Julie Kane) the anthologies Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse and Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical & Creative Responses to Everette Maddox. Grace was active in the New Orleans poetry community in the late 70s and early 80s. She then taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Nebraska for more than 25 years. She now lives and writes in Philadelphia.