Katrina Vandenberg lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is the author of Atlas (Milkweed Editions, 2004), a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. She has received grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Bush, McKnight, and Fulbright foundations. New essays and poems are forthcoming in Orion, Poets & Writers, Commonweal, and Post Road. This fall she will be the resident fellow at the Amy Clampitt House near Lenox, Massachusetts.