Lori A. May is a writing mentor at University of King s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is Founding Editor of Poets Quarterly (www.poetsquarterly.com), and her other books include The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship & the Writing Life (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Creative Writing Students (Continuum, 2011). www.loriamay.com