Deirdre Fagan is a native New Yorker who has lived in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Maryland, and currently resides in Michigan where she teaches and coordinates the Creative Writing program at Ferris State University. She has been teaching college writing and literature courses since 1996, and began her writing career publishing academic essays. She has a bachelor's in English from University at Buffalo and a master's in English and a doctorate in Humanistic Studies (English and Philosophy) from University at Albany. She is the author of a forthcoming memoir, Find a Place for Me (Pact Press, Regal House Publishing, 2022), a short story collection, The Grief Eater (Adelaide Books, 2020), and a chapbook of poetry, Have Love (Finishing Line Press, 2019).  She is also the author of Critical Companion to Robert Frost (Facts on File, 2007) and has published critical essays on poetry, memoir, and pedagogy, among other topics. She writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and is working on a full-length poetry collection and another memoir. She is a remarried widow and mother of two who resides with her charming husband, delightful children, and incredibly friendly golden retriever and tabby in a home surrounded by woods.