Sarah Pemberton Strong is the author of the poetry collection Tour of the Breath Gallery (Texas Tech University Press), which won the Walt McDonald First-Book Award. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Mississippi Review, Poetry Daily, Rattle, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, and The Sun. She is the recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and a Stover Award from Southwest Review. Sarah is also the author of two novels, Burning the Sea and The Fainting Room. She lives in Hamden, Connecticut, where she is a poetry editor for New Haven Review. www.sarahpembertonstrong.com [2]