Mary Stone Dockery is from St. Joseph, MO, where she received her BA in English Literature from Missouri Western State University. She will graduate with her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas in 2012. Her first poetry collection, Mythology of Touch, was released in 2012 by Woodley Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, Aching Buttons (Dancing Girl Press) and Blink Finch (Kattywompus Press), both forthcoming in 2012. Her poetry and prose has appeared in many fine journals and is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Gargoyle, South Dakota Review, Melusine, Jelly Bucket, and others. She currently lives in Lawrence, KS, but may be moving soon to begin a PhD program.