Wendy Scott’s first book of poems, Soon I Will Build an Ark, was published by Main Street Rag in 2014. Her poems have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Harpur Palate, among others. She is an editor of the Pittsburgh Poetry Journal and has an M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. She is one of three editors for Show Us Your Papers, a forthcoming poetry anthology from Main Street Rag about being permitted, documented and categorized. She has taught creative writing and composition at universities, elementary schools and halfway houses. She has also worked as a social worker, a legal assistant, a cashier and a waitress. She is a proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic creative writing group at Carlow University. She lives in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.