Mary Carroll-Hackett earned an MFA from Bennington College and her work has appeared in numerous journals including "Carolina Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Pedestal Magazine, Superstition Review, Drunken Boat" and "The Prose-Poem Project", among others. She was a North Carolina Blumenthal Writer and winner of the Willamette Award for Fiction. Her chapbook, "The Real Politics of Lipstick", won Slipstream's 2010 poetry competition, and another, "Animal Soul", was released this year from Kattywompus Press. She founded and teaches in the Creative Writing programs at Longwood Universit...