Michele Battiste's first full-length collection, INK FOR AN ODD CARTOGRAPHY (Black Lawrence Press, 2009), was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award. She is also the author of four chapbooks, the most recent of which is Lineage (Binge Press, 2012). Recent work can be found in American Poetry Review, Anti-, Mid-American Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Women's Studies Quarterly among other journals. She has received grants and awards from AWP, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Senate, the Center for the American West, and the Poetry Society of Virginia. In 2006,...