Jacqueline Berger is the author of four previous books of poetry, including The Day You Miss Your Exit (Broadstone Books, 2018); The Gift That Arrives Broken (Autumn House Press, 2010), winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize; Things That Burn (University of Utah Press, 2005), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry; and The Mythologies of Danger (Bluestem Press, 1997), winner of the Bluestem Award and the Bay Area Book Awards Poetry Prize). Several of her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac. She is a professor emerita at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, and has recently relocated from San Francisco to the California Central Coast with her husband.