Jennifer Pons lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she teaches writing at a community college. Her poems appear in Ninth Letter, Mom Egg Review, CutBank, Whale Road Review, and others. She was a finalist for the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry and the Pamet River Prize, a semifinalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition, has been nominated for Best Spiritual Literature twice and holds MFA’s from both the University of Arizona and Seattle Pacific University.