Carrie Shipers’s poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, AGNI, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals. She is the author of two chapbooks, Ghost-Writing (Pudding House, 2007) and Rescue Conditions (Slipstream, 2008), and two full-length collections, Ordinary Mourning (ABZ, 2010) and Embarking on Catastrophe (forthcoming from Able Muse). (updated 11/2014)