Catherine SasanovCatherine Sasanov spent four years researching the lives of the Steele slaves of Southwest Missouri. She has authored two previous poetry collections, Traditions of Bread and Violence (Four Way Books) and All the Blood Tethers (Norteastern University Press), and the libretto for Las Horas de Belén: A Book of Hours, commissioned by Mabou Mines. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Mexico's National Fund for Culture and the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Her journal publications include Pleiades, Field, Hotel Amerika, Agni, and Poetry. She lives in Boston. Read More Read Less