Julianna Baggott is the author of two novels available from Atria/Simon & Schuster, Girl Talk and The Miss America Family, as well as a book of poems, This Country of Mothers, (Southern Illinois University Press). Her poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 2000, Chelsea, Poetry, and The Southern Review among others.

About The Southeast Review:
Poets in this issue: Ai, Christopher Locke, Ron Mohring, Allen Braden, Erika Meitner, Ruth L. Schwartz, Dorianne Laux, Karen Head, Quan Barry, Joe Benevento, Julianna Baggott, Dana Levin, William A. Johnson, Frank X. Gaspar, Joel Peckham, Ron Rash