LOUISE MATHIAS is the author of Lark Apprentice, which was chosen by Brenda Hillman for the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Above All Else, the Trembling Resembles a Forest, won the Burnside Review Chapbook contest and is just out from Burnside Review Press. Recent poems appear in journals such as Barrow Street, Ninth Letter, Triquarterly, and Third Coast. She lives in California.