A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
Jen Hirt is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Composition at Penn State Harrisburg. She is the author of the memoir Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees. Erin Murphy is Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Ancilla and coeditor (with Todd Davis) of Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets, also published by SUNY Press.