About the Author

Jamie Houghton is a poet, musician and teaching artist living in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has been featured online at qarrtsiluni, Abramelin, Picaroon and Tribe Magazine's micro publication, Thief, and her book reviews can be found at High Desert Journal. She represented Smith College at Poetry Slam College Nationals in 2006, and she has been teaching poetry in traditional and alternative classrooms for over ten years. In her spare time she can be found baking and spoiling her three large dogs.