Mary Beth O’Connor lives, writes, and teaches in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her work has been published most recently in Red Fez, Inkwell, Asinine Poetry, Printer’s Devil Review Cafe Irreal, Prick of the Spindle, Mad Hatter’s Review, and other journals, and is forthcoming in The Healing Muse and Literary Bohemians. Her award-winning chapbook Smackdown! Poems about the Professor Business was published in a new edition by The Teacher’s Voice in summer 2010.