Kathryn Nuernberger has been a farmer's wife tied to the land, but now she is a confirmed vagabond. She has lived in various corners of Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, and Montana, and likes the mountains best. Her first book, Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011), was a love letter to backwoods junk collectors and all of the abandoned cabins in the foothills to the Ozark Mountains. An unapologetic dilettante, she has received research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research unlikely aspects of the history of science and medicine. She currently lives in Columbia, MO, teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, and serves as the director of Pleiades Press.