Barbara Edelman is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches a range of courses in the Writing, Composition, Professional Writing (PPW), and Literature Programs. She recently designed the PPW course Writing for Environmental Advocacy, and she has taught collaboratively with a Studio Arts faculty member on a course called The Book as Art. For the past ten years, she has coordinated the Writers Café, a program in which students from across the university come together to write in response to guided exercises led by professional writers. She has worked as an actor and as well a professional editor and grant writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Dream of the Gone-From City (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2017) and of two poetry chapbooks: Exposure (Finishing Line Press 2014) and A Girl in Water (Parallel Press 2002) She’s been awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant in poetry. Her poems, short fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, Arts & Letters, and Rattle, among other journals. More information and samples of her work are available on her website: barbaraedelman1.