Grace Bauer has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New & Selected Poems. She also co-edited the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic An Anthology of Subversive Verse. Here poems, essays, stories, and reviews have appeared widely in anthologies and journals. She taught for many years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She now lives and writes in Philadelphia.