ANNIE CHRISTAIN is a fourth year English PhD student at the University of South Dakota.  Her poems have been published in Bombay Gin, Arabesques Review, The American Drivel Review, and Beeswax Magazine.  She is the three year recipient of the University of South Dakota’s Gladys Hasse Poetry Award, and she received the 2007 and 2008 Jerry Bradley Award for Creative Writing at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture Conference in Albuquerque, NM.  In 2005, 2007, and 2008, she attended the Naropa Summer Writing Program, taking workshops from Anne Waldman, Michael Rothenberg, Sherwin Bitsui, and Ilya Kaminsky.