Winner of the 2012 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Stephen Dunn, Chelsea Rathburn's second collection continues to amaze with her ability to direct a clear poet's gaze on every aspect of life. Working in both free-verse and form, this book solidfies Rathburn as an essential voice for contemporary poetry.

CHELSEA RATHBURN is the author of two poetry collections, A Raft of Grief and The Shifting Line. Her poems have been published in The Atlantic, Poetry and New England Review, among other journals, while her prose has been published in Creative Nonfiction and Ploughshares. In 2009, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a professor of English and creative writing at Young Harris College, and she lives in Young Harris, GA, with her husband, the poet James Davis May, and their daughter.