Janice Northerns is a native Texan who currently lives in southwest Kansas, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at a community college. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Roanoke Review, Southwestern American Literature, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Laurel Review, College English, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Cape Rock, SLANT. She is a recipient of the Robert S. Newton Creative Writing Award from Texas Tech University.