Diana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems, and “Life in Transition,” a series of 31 essays on gender in America, archived at The American Scholar online. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in leading journals, newspapers and anthologies including The New Yorker, Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship from The New School, and the Donald Murray prize for writing pedagogy. She has taught in M.F.A. programs, public schools, prisons, living rooms and, for 18 years, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Her website is www.dianagoetsch.com.