Stacey Waite is originally from Long Island, New York. S/he majored in English at Bucknell University and earned an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. S/he now teaches courses in Composition, Gender Studies, and Literature and Creative Writing as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. Waite has published three collections of poems: THE LAKE HAS NO SAINT (Tupelo Press, 2010), Love Poem to Androgyny (Main Street Rag, 2007), and Choke (Thorngate Road, 2004), winner of the Frank O'Hara Prize. Recent poems have been published in Bloom, The Marlboro Review, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, and Knockout.