Deena Linett is the author of three collections of poetry including Rare Earths (BOA, 2001), and Woman Crossing a Field (BOA, 2006). While earning her doctorate at Rutgers University, Linett had the first of two fellowships to Yaddo, where she completed her first novel, On Common Ground, co-winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in the Novel. Her newest collection of poems The Gate at Visby was published by Tiger Bark Press in 2012. For more information about Deena Linett, visit www.deenalinett.org.