Paula Closson Buck is the author of a novel, Summer on the Cold War Planet, as well as three books of poems, most recently You Cannot Shoot a Poem. Her short stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Nimrod International, Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, and Southern Review, and her fiction has been recognized with a prize from Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Competition and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She also spent six months as a Fulbright Scholar in Nicosia, Cyprus, and has been involved in NGO work in India. She now divides her time between Pennsylvania and the Pelion region of Greece.