Robyn Sarah is the author of nine previous poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a book of essays on poetry. Her writing has appeared widely in the United States, the UK, and Canada, and her poems have been anthologized in Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times (2005), The Norton Anthology of Poetry (2005), The Bedford Introduction to Literature (2001), Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2011), and Fifteen Canadian Poets (Oxford, 2001).