Janet McCann taught creative writing at Texas A&M from 1969 until 2015 and is now Professor Emerita there. Journals publishing her work include Kansas Quarterly, Parnassus, Nimrod, Sou’wester, Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, New York Quarterly, Tendril, Poetry Australia. Her most recent book-length poetry collection: The Crone at the Casino, Lamar Univ. Press, 2015