Heidi Blitch has received degrees from UNC-Greensboro, and from the University of Utah. She has written one manuscript of poetry, Cleave, and is at work on another, tentatively titled Dead Metaphor, from which this poem is taken. She has work published or forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, Sundog: The Southeast Review, and The Greensboro Review.

About Quarterly West:
Poets in this issue: Jake Adam York, G. C. Waldrep, Kate Gale, D. C. Gonzales-Prieto, Timothy Liu, Anne Pierson Wiese, Heidi Blitch, Nadine Meyer, Patrick Moran, Robyn Sarah, Mirabi