SARAH GORHAM is the author of four collections of poetry: Bad Daughter (Four Way Books, 2011), The Cure (Four Way Books, 2003), The Tension Zone (Four Way Books, 1996, second edition 1998), and Don't Go Back to Sleep (Galileo Press, 1989). Individual poems have been published in Best American Poetry 2006, American Poetry Review, Pool, Gettysburg Review, Antaeus, The Nation, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Open City, Georgia Review, Grand Street, Southern Review, among other places. She also writes essays and they have appeared in Iowa Review, Agni, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, Real Simple, and Poets and Writers.. She received grants and fellowships from the Kentucky, Connecticut, and Delaware State Arts Councils, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In March 1994, Gorham founded Sarabande Books, Inc. a small press devoted to the publication of poetry, short fiction, and literary nonfiction. Gorham serves as President and Editor-in-Chief. She is the wife of poet Jeffrey Skinner, the mother of Laura and Bonnie Skinner, and the grandmother of Lucille Elizabeth and Josephine Kathryn Renda. She owns two hound dogs: Monty and Katy, who are chiefly interested in sleeping, eating, and chasing groundhogs.