Judith Kitchen is the author of two collections of creative nonfiction, a novel, a book of poetry, and a book of criticism.  For twenty years, she has been the regular poetry reviewer for The Georgia Review.  She is also editor of three collections of short nonfiction for W. W. Norton and an anthology of bird poems (with Ted Kooser, former poet laureate of the U.S.).  New essays are forthcoming in The Georgia Review and Prairie Schooner.  She lives in Port Townsend, WA, and serves on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshops, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.