Kasey Jueds is an accomplished poet, essayist, educator, and writing consultant based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As an MFA graduate in poetry and a Ph.D. student in English, she has written for numerous literary journals, including American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Crazyhorse, among others. Her first full-length poetry collection, Keeper, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2013, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Kasey teaches writing at the University of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as the director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. She also offers private editing and writing consultation services to individual clients, helping them hone their craft, refine their voice, and express their unique perspectives concisely and effectively.