Megan Kaminski is the author of the chapbook Across Soft Ruins (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in Coconut, Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, 6×6, Third Coast, and other fine journals. She lives in Lawrence, KS, where she teaches as a creative writing lecturer at the University of Kansas.  She spent much of her early life in Virginia, and lived in Casablanca, Los Angeles, Paris, and Portland, before moving to Kansas.