Elisabeth Workman was born in 1976 outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in _VeRT_, _Long Shot_, _So to Speak_, and _Myopia_ (a collaborative manifesto), among others. She has worked as a grant-writer for tribal organizations, a city planner for a small Midwestern town, a writer for public broadcasting, and a bartender at the Wrangler Inn in Mobridge, South Dakota. From 2002 to 2004, she served as a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Artist-in-Residence, conducting poetry workshops in schools throughout rural Pennsylvania. Her attraction to obscure locales has currently manifested itself in her residence in Doha, Qatar, where she lives with her husband and teaches writing at an international school. _a city_a cloud_, also from Dusie, is her first chapbook.