Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a 6 time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She is the author of a full length poetry collection, HOW FORMAL? as well as the prose poem chapbook SEX WITH BUILDINGS. She is also a novelist (THE PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR, RESCUE PLAN) and writing teacher. Stephanie is a continually displaced city-slicker: a New Yorker, who moved to Southern California, who now lives for the moment in rural Washington state. She is managing editor at SHARK REEF.