Iris Cushing is a poet and scholar living in the Catskill mountains of New York. Her poems and critical writings have appeared in Granta, Fence, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. She is the co-editor of Mary Norbert Korte's Jumping into the American River: New and Selected Poems Vol. I and II (Argos Books/Subseries) and the author of The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Wyoming (Furniture Press Books).