Sandra Kohler’s The Ceremonies of Longing, winner of the AWP Award Series in Poetry, was published in 2003 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. A previous collection, The Country of Women was published by Calyx in 1995. Kohler’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The Colorado Review, and The Southern Review. She lives and writes in Selinsgrove, PA, a small town on the Susquehanna River.