Shara McCallum is the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University and the author of three individual collections of poetry, Song of Thieves, This Strange Land, and The Water Between Us. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her personal essays have appeared in the Antioch Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Witness. She lives Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.