Sandra Doller’s first book was Oriflamme—a word featured in the 2009 National Spelling Bee—and her second collection, Chora (in which this poem appears) came out in March 2010, also from Ahsahta Press; she recently finished a new manuscript, called Man Years. Doller is the founder & editrice of the curiously named 1913 a journal of forms/1913 Press and is Assistant Professor at California State University. She lives all over with her man, Ben Doller (né Doyle), and their pups.