Rebecca Mertz received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. Her poems have appeared or will appear in H_NGM_N, Praxilla, Otoliths, sawbuck, and an upcoming anthology entitled How Dirty Girls Get Clean. She is a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, and recently wrote the preface for the latest edition of John J. McNeill’s Freedom, Glorious Freedom: The Spiritual Journey for Gays, Lebsians and Everybody Else. She’s a founding editor of the new poetry journal, A Joint Called Pauline