Anna Journey is the author of the forthcoming debut essay collection An Arrangement of Skin (Counterpoint, 2017) and the poetry collections The Atheist Wore Goat Silk (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming 2017), Vulgar Remedies (LSU, 2013), and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. Her essays have appeared in Catapult, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, The Southern Review, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. She is assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. (updated 10/2016)