Yvonne ZipterYvonne Zipter is the author of the full-length collection The Patience of Metal (Hutchinson House), which was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and the chapbook Like Some Bookie God. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals, including Poetry, outhern Humanities Review, Bellingham Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, as well as in several anthologies. She is also the author of two nonfiction books, Diamonds Are a Dyke's Best Friend and Ransacking the Closet. A retired manuscript editor for the University of Chicago Press, she lives in Chicago, where she has shared her home with a number of retired racing greyhounds over the years. Read More Read Less