Angélique Jamail's poetry and essays have appeared in over two dozen anthologies and journals, including New Reader Magazine, Waxwing, Time-Slice, Improbable Worlds, Pluck Magazine, The Milk of Female Kindness––An Anthology of Honest Motherhood, Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston, Femmeliterate, Bayou City Magazine, and The Enchantment of the Ordinary. Her work was selected as a Finalist for the New Letters Prize in Poetry in 2011. Her magic realism novelette Finis. (Odeon Press) has been praised by fiction writer Ari Marmell as having "some of the most real people I've encountered via text in a long time," and by poet Marie Marshall as "a witty tale of conformity, prejudice, and transformation, in a world that is disturbing as much for its familiarity as for its strangeness." She teaches Creative Writing and English in Houston. Find her online at her blog Sappho's Torque (www.SapphosTorque.com).