MARGARET B. RAY grew up in Gainesville, Florida, which is neither South Florida nor quite the South. She has been a contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in FIELD, Rattle, American Literary Review, Habitat, and Mortar Magazine. She is currently a poetry MFA student at Warren Wilson College, and she lives in New Jersey, where she teaches high school English and creative writing.