Dr. Deirdre Fagan is an associate professor at Ferris State University and the award-winning author of a collection of poetry, Phantom Limbs (forthcoming, 2023), a memoir, Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death (2022), a short story collection, The Grief Eater (2020), a chapbook of poetry, Have Love (2019), and a reference book, Critical Companion to Robert Frost (2007). A creative writer and literary scholar, Fagan’s essays, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared widely in literary and scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as newspapers and magazines. She is the poetry editor at Orange Blossom Review.