Shaindel Beers' poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon's high desert and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary (http://www.facebook.com/l/c2807;www.contrarymagazine.com). Her first full-length poetry collection, A Brief History of Time, was published by Salt Publishing in 2009. Find Shaindel online at http://shaindelbeers.com/