Julia Spicher Kasdorf has published four books of poetry: Sleeping Preacher, Eve’s Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a collaborative documentary project with Steven Rubin. She is currently at work on a documentary project about farmers working within 30 miles of her home in Bellefonte, PA. Her awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Great Lakes College’s Association Award for New Writing, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.