Grace Bauer’s most recent books of poems include Retreats & Recognition (Lost Horse Press) and Beholding Eye (CustomWords). She is also co-editor, with Julie Kane, of Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She teaches in the Creative Writing program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is currently guest editing a special of Prairie Schooner.