Joan Aleshire was a member of the Warren Wilson MFA poetry faculty from 1983 through 2013. Days of Our Lives (Four Way Books, September 2019) is her sixth book of poetry; she has also published essays and translations, in addition to Cloud Train (Texas Tech Press, 1982) and This Far (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1987). She lives in Vermont, where she is a library trustee and the founder of SAGE, an organization that supports sustainable agricultural education and the arts. She is at work on a novel.