Charity Ketz was born in Roanoke, VA and grew up in Central Pennsylvania. She received her BA from Penn State University and an MFA from Cornell University and has previously published a chapbook, Locust in Bloom, from Poet’s Corner Press. She has worked as an orthodontist’s assistant, as a waitress, as a figure skating coach, and as an sEnglish lecturer. She is currently a PhD student at U.C. Berkeley.