Heidi Lynn StaplesHeidi Lynn Staples's debut collection, GUESS CAN GALLOP, won the 2004 New Issues Poetry Prize. She is also the author of DOG GIRL (Ahsahta Press, 2007) and NOISE EVENT (Ahsahta Press, 2013), drawn from the ecology of her native Gulf Coast. She has alo published a nonfiction work, Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake (Caketrain, 2012). Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry 2004, Chicago Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, Green Mountains Review, Ploughshares, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. An Assistant Professor of English and the Learning Center Director at Piedmont College, Heidi lives in Athens, GA, with her husband, daughter, cat, and front- yard veggie patch. Read More Read Less