Heather Woods received an MFA in Poetry and Teaching from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. At Kenyon College, she received her BA in Comparative Poetics, where she served as Student Associate on the Kenyon Review, and founded Persimmons literary magazine. She presently serves as a reader for Kelsey Street Press in Berkeley. Her work is visible in Jacket, How2, and Switchback. Recently, she collaborated on a festchrift honoring Kathleen Fraser (Nightboat Books). In her non-tome-time, Heather teaches writing to students from kindergarten