Hilda Raz retired as a professor of english and women's and gender studies at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, where she was the Glenna Luschei endowed editor of Prairie Schooner, and is currently the series editor for poetry at the University of New Mexico Press. Her poems, essays, articles, and reviews have been published in books from University Presses of New England, Scribner's, Longstreet Press, Story Line Press, North Light Books, and the Bench Press. She has served as editor, scholar, and fellow at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, and is a past president of the Association of Writ...