Anne Hampford is based in Connecticut but spends most of the year on the coast of Ecuador. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Connecticut River Review, Crab Creek Review, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Gulf Stream Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, and Wild Roof Journal, among others. She holds a B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University. She has traveled to six continents and can fake her way through several languages. This is her first chapbook of poetry.