Nancy Boutilier is the author of two poetry collections: According to Her Contours (Black Sparrow Press, 1992) and On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone (Black Sparrow Press 2000). While teaching high school English and coaching basketball, Nancy was a freelance writer for a variety of pioneering LGBTQ literary magazines in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her column “Dykeotomy” appeared regularly in the Bay Area Reporter. More recently, she completed her MFA at The Rainier Writing Workshop of Pacific Lutheran University and currently teaches writing at Oberlin College.