Martha Silano is the author of four books of poetry: What the Truth Tastes Like (1999), Blue Positive (2006), Saturnalia Books Prize Winner The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (2011), and Reckless Lovely (2014). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Paris Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, AGNI, and in over two dozen print anthologies. Martha is also the author, with Kelli Russell Agodon, of The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice. She edits Crab Creek Review and teaches at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington.