Kristin LaTour‘s first full-length collection is What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015.) Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Rhino, Packingtown Review, Oven Bird, Fifth Wednesday, Cider Press Review, Escape into Life, and Massachusetts Review and in the anthology Obsession: Sestinas in the 21st Century. She teaches at Joliet Jr. College and lives in Aurora, IL with her writer husband, a cockatiel, and two doggos.