DEBRA KAUFMAN is the author of The Next Moment and A Certain Light as well as the chapbooks Family of Strangers, Still Life Burning, and Moon Mirror Whiskey Wind. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Spoon River Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, Poetry East, and the North Carolina Literary Review, and anthologies such as The Art and Craft of Poetry and Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry. Her new collection, Delicate Thefts, is forthcoming from Jacar Press. www.debrakaufman.info