Amy Baskin lives with her husband and two children in Portland, Oregon. An Oregon Poetry Association prize winner, she is the author of  Hysterical Cake, Night Hag, and Skull, and her work can be found in many anthologies and journals. When not writing, Amy works for the departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark College, and helps run literary arts programs such as Fir Acres Writing Workshop, a residential summer program for high school students with a multicultural, multinational reach. She enjoys camping with her family and seeking out the beauty in life.