Heidi Lynn Staples is the author of four collections, including Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake: A Memoir (Caketrain 2012) and the forthcoming Noise Event (Ahsahta 2013). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize, she is also the co-founder and co-editor of Poets for Living Waters, an international poetry response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.