Katherine Hastings is the author of Cloud Fire (Spuyten Duyvil, NYC, 2012) and several chapbooks. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies as well as The Book of Forms — A Handbook of Poetics (Lewis Putnam Turco, ed., 2012). She is the host of WordTemple on NPR affiliate KRCB FM and curator of the WordTemple Poetry Series in Sonoma County, California (www.wordtemple.com) where she lives with her partner, CJ Rayhill, and chihuahua, Gizmo Federico Garcia Lorca.