Rebecca Bridge is a poet, writer, and professor who lives in Chicago with two dogs, two kids, and one husband. She is the author of the poetry collection A Month's Worth of Instructional Poems as well as the short film Wednesday's Child. She has won many awards for her writing, including the 1/2k Prize from The Indiana Review, an Eileen Lannan poetry prize, the Donald Justice Memorial Prize and her work has been published widely. When she's not writing or parenting, Rebecca is also a visual artist, painter and metalsmith and a constructor of cryptic crosswords.