Nicole Cartwright Denison lives on a trout farm in western North Carolina, is author of the chapbooks The 4th Stage of Grief (blossombones, 2008), Purview to Undoing (Gold Wake Press, 2008) and Recovering the Body (dancing girl press, 2007) and is a Best of the Net 2008 and Pushcart Prize nominee. Work is forthcoming in No Tell Motel, Spider Vein Impasto and Taiga and has appeared in Press 1, Arsenic Lobster, Spooky Boyfriend, Blue Fifth Review, Ectoplasmic Necropolis, tattoo highway, Poetry Midwest, elimae,The Pedestal Magazine and others. Photography has appeared in Stirring, Digital Paper and Lily. With founder Rachel Mallino, she co-edits Tilt Press.