if you think back maybe it will come to you, the ecstatic pain of cells dividing, face coiling out of the brain, the time in the mothery sea when the outside of your face was the same as your mind and your skin was not a shell but the inside of a flower that in turn was a wound so open we call it human. 's poetry has received two Bush Foundation Fellowships in Poetry and a Loft McKnight Award. Her novel was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. She has published four other mystery novels and eight books for children. She teaches college writing in Minneapolis, Minnesota.