Gillian Devereux received her MFA in Poetry from Old Dominion University and directs the writing center at Wheelock College, where she also teaches creative writing. She has written two chapbooks: Focus on Grammar (from dancing girl press, 2012) and They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights (from Aforementioned Productions, 2011). Her work has been published in numerous journals and in the anthology A Face to Meet the Faces (from University of Akron Press, 2012). In 2010, her poem "Under the Big Top" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Gillian likes robots, knitting, small woodland creatures, film noir, gin, and the library.