Heather Bartlett holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College. She is the author of the chapbook Bleeding Yellow Light (From Yes Press, 2009). Her recent poems can be found in Barrow Street, Carolina Quarterly, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, PoemMemoirStory, and other journals. A lecturer in English at the State University of New York at Cortland, she lives, writes, and grades papers in Ithaca, NY.