Katharine Rauk has poems published or forthcoming in Harvard Review, Georgetown Review, Paper Darts, Anti-, Hobart, and elsewhere. Her poems have been choreographed by dancers as part of Sandbox Theatre’s word/move project as well as performed by the musicians of the Willamette Jazz Collective. She teaches at North Hennepin Community College and is an assistant editor of Rowboat: Poetry in Translation. Her chapbook, Basil, was selected as a finalist for the Fall 2008 Black River Chapbook Competition.