Hilary S. Jacqmin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979 and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She earned her BA from Wesleyan University, her MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and her MFA from the University of Florida. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and works as an editor for Baltimore Review and for Johns Hopkins University Press. Her poems have appeared in many places, including: AGNI Online, The Awl, Barrelhouse, Best New Poets 2011: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (edited by D. A. Powell), Controlled Burn, FIELD Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Painted Bride Quarterly, PANK, Passages North, Raintown Review, The Sewanee Theological Review, Subtropics, Unsplendid, and The Urbanite.