Jacqueline Marcus is the author of Close to the Shore (Michigan State University Press). Her work has appeared in the Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, New Madrid, Tampa Review, Hotel Amerika, Verse Daily, and other journals. She taught philosophy at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California. Marcus’ collection of commentaries, Man Cannot Live on Oil, Alone: Time to end our dependency on oil before it ends us, is available at Kindle Books. She is the editor of the online poetry journals, ForPoetry.com and EnvironmentalPress.com. Her essays have been published at BuzzFlash at Truth-out.org, the North American Review, CommonDreams.org and more.