Cathryn Essinger's second book, My Dog Does Not Read Plato, was a finalist in the Main Street Rag competition and will be available in December. Her first book, A Desk In The Elephant House, won the Walt McDonald First Book Award from Texas Tech. Her new work has appeared in Poetry, Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, New England Review and in Poetry magazine’s 90th year anthology. She teaches writing classes at Edison Community College, in Piqua, Ohio.

About The Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Herman Asarnow, Rick Bass, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Cathryn Essinger, William Greenway, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Sydney Lea, Laura Long, Donald Platt, Jay Rogoff, Jeffrey Skinner, R.T. Smith, Catherine Staples, Liz Tilton, Daniel Tobin, Gyorgyi Voros, Charles Harper Webb