Mary Carroll-Hackett took the MFA in Fiction from Bennington College in June 2003. Her work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, and Reed, among numerous other literary journals. Her first book, What the Potter Said, was released in July 2005. She currently directs Creative Writing at Longwood University in Farmville, VA, where she also edits The Dos Passos Review and administers the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry with Briery Creek Press.