Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently In a Rind of Light (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2020), and two chapbooks. Her poems appear in venues including Narrative, The Southern Review, Tar River Poetry, Atticus Review, Nimrod, Chicago Quarterly Review, Verse Daily and The Writer's Almanac. She writes in, and teaches from, the foothills of California’s Southern Sierra Nevada.