Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the 2011 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, and In the Little House, winner of the 2008 Copperdome Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Believer, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, LIT, The Massachusetts Review, The Sewanee Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. Before coming to the University of Cincinnati, she taught at the University of Massachusetts, Colorado College, and American University.