Sheila Squillante is the author of the poetry collection, Beautiful Nerve. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in places like Copper Nickel, Waxwing, Indiana Review and North Dakota Quarterly. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, where she edits The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing. From her dining room table, she edits the blog at Barrelhouse.