Carol Dorf worked for the federal government for two summers in a research facility in Warminster, PA, in the library, when the government was researching solar power in the mid-1970s. Her father worked most of his career for the federal government, in procurement for the Army. She writes, “I think my poems may have been influenced by working in a facility with multiple levels of security, and by the tension between the research mentality of the engineers and the security mentality of the managers.” Dorf’s poems have appeared in Qarrtsiluni, Sin Fronteras, In Posse Review, Feminist Studies, Heresies, and 13th Moon. They have been anthologized in Not a Muse, and Boomer Girls.