Panic & Joy by Heather McNaugher

Heather McNaugher is the author of Second-order Desire and System of Hideouts and two poetry chapbooks, Panic & Joy (FLP, 2008) and Double Life. She teaches poetry, nonfiction, and literature at her alma mater, Chatham University, where she is nonfiction editor of The Fourth River. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, The Cossack Review, and Oyster River Pages. She worked as a house cleaner and barista in Seattle, as a dog walker in Brooklyn, and then got her Ph.D. in English from The State University of New York at Binghamton. While working for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, she almost became a librarian. She’s tried living elsewhere, but keeps coming back to Pittsburgh.