Katie Hartsock's first poetry collection, Bed of Impatiens (Able Muse Press), was a finalist for the 2017 Ohioana Award. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ecotone, The Greensboro Review, Pleiades, Arion, The Birmingham Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English at Oakland University in Michigan, where she lives with her husband and two young sons.