Carol Quinn‘s poetry has appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, River Styx, Colorado Review, and Gargoyle, as well as the anthologies Women Write Resistance and Hot Sonnets. She has published essays and reviews in The Emily Dickinson Journal, The American Book Review, Pleiades, and Voltage. Acetylene, Quinn’s first book of poems, won the Cider Press Review Book Award, and was published in 2010. She holds degrees from the University of Houston, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Southern California, and teaches in the English Department at Towson University in Maryland.