Cynie Cory is the author of American Girl (New Issues). She is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and Florida State University where she received a doctorate in English. Cory has taught creative writing and literature in the U.S. and in London and Spain. Her work has been anthologized most recently in And Here: 100 years of Michigan's Upper Peninsula Writing, ed. Ron Riekki. Her poems have also appeared in many journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Ploughshares and Triquarterly. Cory is a native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and makes her home in Tallahassee, Florida.