Heather Christle is the author of The Difficult Farm, a collection of poems recently published by Octopus Books. She received her MFA from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her BA from Tufts University. Her poems have recently appeared in 6X6, Boston Review, Fence, and No: a journal of the arts, and have been anthologized in The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present.