Kathleen Peirce teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University, San Marcos. Her books include The Oval Hour (University of Iowa, 1999), Divided Touch, Divided Color (Windhover Press, 1995), and Mercy (University of Pittsburgh, 1991). Her next book, The Ardors, will be published by Ausable Press in the spring of 2004.  

Photo by George Krause