Keetje Kuipers:
Keetje Kuipers completed her MFA at the University of Oregon. She has received fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency which will provide her with a year of solitude in Oregon's Rogue River Valley. She will use her time there to complete work on her manuscript, Beautiful in the Mouth, which contains poems currently published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Born Magazine, and Faultline, among others. You can hear her read her work at the online audio archive The Fishouse (www.fishousepoems.org).