Arielle Greenberg is the author of Given (Verse Press, 2002) and Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan Press) and co-editor (with David Trinidad and Tony Trigilio) of a new poetry annual, Court Green. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry 2004, Conjunctions, The Laurel Review, Spoon River, and other journals. She teaches in the poetry program at Columbia College Chicago.

Other poems by Arielle Greenberg in Verse Daily:
August 27, 2003:  "The Mouse-Trap" "Life just doesn't happen this way..."

About Backwards City Review:
Poets in this issue: Erica Bernheim, Johannes Goransson, Arielle Greenberg, Gabriel Gudding, Paul Guest, Kristin Hall, Kent Johnson, John Latta, Sarah Manguso, Joyelle McSweeney, K. Silem Mohammed, Ander Monson, Karri Harrison Paul, Marcus Slease, Tony Tost, Greg Williamson