Rebecca McClanahan has published nine books, most recently Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 and The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, which won the 2005 Glasgow Award for nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, the Pushcart anthology, and The Best American Poetry series, among other publications. She lives in New York and teaches in the low-residency MFA programs of Queens University (Charlotte) and Pacific Lutheran University.