Christopher Jane Corkery is a poet and essayist. Her first book, Blessing, was published by Princeton University Press and reprinted by The Authors Guild in 2006. A second collection, Love Took the Words, will be published by Slant Books later this year. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and appeared in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Kenyon Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and others. (updated 10/2020)