Mary Meriam studied poetry at Columbia University (MFA) and Bennington College (BA), volunteers as an editor and publisher of lesbian poetry and art, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas Monticello. She is the author of eight poetry collections, and the editor of Irresistible Sonnets and Lady of the Moon. Her poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, Literary Matters, Nimrod, Ploughshares, Poetry, Subtropics, The Classical Outlook, and The Poetry Review.