About the Author

Ellen Bass has published several award-winning books of poetry, including The Human Line and Mules of Love. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, and many other journals. She coedited the groundbreaking anthology of women’s poetry No More Masks! and her nonfiction includes the best-selling The Courage to Heal. She teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University.