Lorna Knowles Blake was born in Havana and grew up in South American and the Caribbean. She lives in New York City, where she serves as Senior Poetry Editor of Rattapallax and Managing Editor of Lumina, the literary journal at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Brilliant Corners, Calyx, The Formalist, Hudson Review, Tar River Poetry, and in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, edited by Agha Shahid Ali.

About Crab Orchard Review:
Poets in this issue: Elsa Arnett, Rachel Berghash, Wendy Bishop, Lorna Knowles Blake, Catherine Bowman, Linda Casebeer, Victoria Chang, Huan-Hua Chye, Geraldine Connolly, Chauna Craig, Deborah Cummins, Chad Davidson, Susan Elbe, Cherryl Floyd-Miller, Jeffrey Franklin, Ana Garza, Rigoberto Gonzalez, John Guzlowski, Yona Harvey, Ava Leavell Haymon, M. Ayodele Heath, Christopher Hennessy, Julie Hensley, James Hoch, Anna Maria Hong, Robin Leslie Jacobson, Terry Kirts, Karen Kovacik, Anya Krugovoy, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Gareth Lee, Joseph O. Legaspi, Nan Leslie, Shara Lessley, TimothyLiu, Joel Long, Bog Lucky, Jeff Mann, Adrian Matejka, John McNally, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Soo Jin Oh, Lucia Perillo, Marlene Phipps, Rohan Preston, Meredith Reiches, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Gianna Russo, Ruth L. Schwartz, Rebecca Seiferle, Amar Gaurav Shah, Nancy Shih-Knodel, Evie Schockley, Renee Soto, Virgil Suarez, Ira Sukrungruang, Margaret C. Szumowski, Molly Tenenbaum, Jennifer TOnge, Judith Vollmer, Ronald Wallace, Charles Harper Webb, J. Weintraub, Tina Wiseman, S. L. Wisenberg, Terry Wolverton, Jake Adam York, Zhang Er.