M. Brett Gaffney holds a BA in English from Stephen F. Austin State University and an MFA in Poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is the co-editor for Gingerbread House, and her poems have appeared in Exit 7, Rust+Moth, Permafrost, Devilfish Review, museum of americana, BlazeVOX, Rogue Agent, Apex Magazine, Amethyst Arsenic, and Zone 3, among others. Her poetry chapbook, Feeding the Dead, is available from Porkbelly Press. She currently works as a library associate in northern Kentucky and lives in Cincinnati with her partner and their dog, Ava.