Heidi Lynn Staples is the author of four poetry collections, including Noise Event (Ahsahta Press, 2013) and Guess Can Gallop (2004), which won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Co-editor of Poets for Living Waters (www.poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com) and the forthcoming Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change (BlazeVox, 2016), Staples teaches in the MFA program at the University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa, where she is re-inhabiting the Mobile-Bay Watershed.