Maxine Scates is the author of three books of poetry, Undone (New Issues 2011) Toluca Street and Black Loam.  She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford.  Her poems have been widely published in such journals as AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Ironwood, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and her work has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, the Lyre Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She has taught at Lane Community College, Lewis and Clark College and most recently Reed College.  She lives in Eugene, Oregon.