Keetje Kuipers has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, a Bread Loaf Fellow, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. In 2007 she completed her tenure as the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, using her time there to complete work on her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth (BOA, 2010), which was awarded the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Her second book, The Keys to the Jail, was published by BOA in 2014. Kuipers is an assistant professor at Auburn University where she is Editor of Southern Humanities Review. For more information about Keetje Kuipers, visit www.keetjekuipers.com.