Jayne Marek, professor emerita of English with a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, also earned an M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame. She now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest, near the wild and beautiful coast, where she writes, photographs, and learns about natural history. Winner of the Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest and nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes, she has also received two NEH fellowships for literary scholarship. Her collections include the full-length books The Tree Surgeon Dreams of Bowling (2018) and In and Out of Rough Water (2017), the chapbooks Why Horses? Red Mare #13 (2017) and Imposition of Form on the Natural World (2013), and the pamphlet River Triptych (2017). Other selections of her work appear in the poetry/art volume Triple #10 (Ravenna Press, 2020) and Company of Women: New and Selected Poems (a co-authored volume, 2013). She also wrote Women Editing Modernism (1995), a scholarly work, and compiled the Index to Poetry Magazine, 1912-1987 (1988).