Frances O’Roark Dowell is the editor and cofounder of Dream/Girl, an arts magazine for girls. She has also had dozens of poems published in such literary journals as Shenandoah, The Carolina Quarterly, and New Delta Review. She’s been a Poet-in-Residence at Duke University, and received her MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Massachusetts. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and sons.