Mary Buchinger is the author of e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (Main Street Rag, 2018), Aerialist (Gold Wake, 2015, finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award, semifinalist for The Journal /Wheeler and Perugia Press Prizes), Navigating the Reach (forthcoming, Salmon Poetry), and Virology (forthcoming, Lily Poetry Review Books). She grew up in rural Michigan, volunteered in Ecuador for the Peace Corps, earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. President of the New England Poetry Club and professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, she lives in Cambridge with her husband, dog, and cats.