LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a poet and teacher from northern Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in Dust & Fire, The Talking Stick, North Coast Review, Alba, Red River Review, Eclectica, Poems Niederngasse, and CALYX, and she was a finalist for the Creekwalker Poetry Prize (2007) and the Late Blooms Postcard Series (2007). Muhm was a recipient of the 2006 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant in Poetry, and has been featured twice in the “What Light” poetry series on mnartists.org, sponsored by the McKnight Foundation and the Walker Art Museum. She currently serves as Poetry Editor at WomenWriters.net. Her chapbook, Dear Immovable, was published in 2006 by Pudding House Press, and her full-length poetry collection Breaking the Glass was published in May, 2008 by Loonfeather Press.