Janet McCann is an old Texas poet who has been teaching at Texas A&M since 1968. Journals publishing her poems include Kansas Quarterly, Parnassus, Nimrod, Sou'wester, New York Quarterly, Tendril, Poetry Australia, etc. She has won five chapbook contests, sponsored by Pudding Publications, Chimera Connections, Franciscan University Press, Plan B Press, and Sacramento Poetry Center. Her most recent full-length collection:  The Crone at the Cathedral (Lamar University Press, 2013.) She is interested in art and animals—especially together.