Patricia L. Hamilton is a Professor of English at Union University in Jackson, TN, where she teaches creative writing and 18th-century British literature. She has work forthcoming in Ibbetson Street, Broad River Review, Talking River, Illya’s Honey, and Iodine Poetry Journal. Her first volume of poems, The Distance to Nightfall, is newly available from Main Street Rag Publishing. She has received two Pushcart nominations.