Jillian Barnet received her MFA in poetry from Vermont College. She has taught writing and literature at Pennsylvania State University and Chatham College. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and literary journals such as North American Review, Nimrod, and Image. A chapbook, Falling Bodies, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She lives on a tiny farm in the Finger Lakes with her husband and a growing array of opinionated animals.