Sally Rosen Kindred is the author of No Eden (Mayapple Press, 2011), and Garnet Lanterns, winner of the Anabiosis Press Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Best New Poets 2009, and The Journal. A Margaret Knight Sanford Creative Writing Scholar at Duke University, she received her MFA from the University of Maryland. Her awards include the Anne Flexner Poetry Prize, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a residency at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts. She lives in Columbia, Maryland.