Beverly Burch's first book of poetry, Sweet to Burn, won the Gival Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in New England Review, Willow Springs, The Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, North American Review, and Southern Humanities Review. She is the author of two nonfiction books, On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press), and a practicing psychotherapist in Berkeley, California.