Kathleen Aponick has published poetry in journals such as Notre Dame Review, Tampa Review, and Plath Profiles 4. She has two chapbooks: Near the River’s Edge and The Port. A full-length collection, Bright Realm, will be published by WordTech in the fall of 2013. Her poem, "One Sunday in Haverhill," which appears in this volume, was inspired by a memory of hearing Aurelia Plath speak at the Haverhill Public Library in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on February 29, 1976, after the publication of Letters Home, a selection of Sylvia Plath's letters chosen and edited by Mrs. Plath.