Ginny MacKenzie is the author of the poetry collections Skipstone (The Backwaters press, 2003) and _By Morning _ (Coyote Press, 1984), as well as the editor of New York/Beijing: A Poetry Anthology (Coyote Press, 1987). Her work has appeared in such literary journals as The Iowa Review, AGNI, Pequod, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She currently lives in New York City.