Jaimee Hills earned her MA in Writing Seminars from The Johns Hopkins University, and her MFA from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A former editor of Backwards City Review, she now lives and writes in Durham, North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Best New Poets, The Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Her manuscript, Symbolophobia, was a semi-finalist for the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.