Nan Byrne, feminist poet and writer was born in New York City, and is a citizen of Ireland, and the United States. A graduate of the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University, she has taught women's studies at several Virginia colleges and universities. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in New Orleans Review, Seattle Review, Potomac Review, Red Mountain Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Flint Hills Review, Grove Review, Canadian Woman Studies, Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture, So to Speak: A feminist journal of language and art, Phoebe: A journal of feminist scholarship, Earth's Daughters, Hurricane Alice: A feminist quarterly, Caketrain, Blue Earth, Diner, and other journals. She has received grants from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center and awards for her screenplays. The Low Country was a recent semi-finalist at Slamdance. She has published a chapbook, Uncertain Territory and a book, Ourselves as Students: Multicultural Voices from the Classroom. She is currently at work on a novel, Which Way is Heaven.