Bernadette Geyer is the author of the chapbook What Remains (Argonne House Press, 2001), and recipient of a Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax County. Her poetry has appeared in Oxford American, Verse Daily, The Midwest Quarterly, North American Review, and elsewhere. THE SCABBARD OF HER THROAT (The Word Works, 2013) is her first full-length book.