Karen J. Weyant is the author of the chapbooks Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt (Main Street Rag, 2012) and Stealing Dust (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her poems have been published in 5 AM, Cave Wall, Cold Mountain Review, Copper Nickel, Flyway, Harpur Palate, Poetry East, Spillway and RiverStyx. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowship and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Weyant lives in Pennsylvania and is assistant professor of English at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York.