An Oregon native, Jan Verberkmoes lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she is a John and Renée Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi and an MFA candidate in poetry. Her poems appear in Lana Turner, Nashville Review, and the Adroit Journal. She has received scholarships and grants from the Fulbright Program, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She will be a 2018–19 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University.