Elisa Gabbert is an editor of Absent. She has work in Boston Review, Pleiades, Cannibal, Meridian, and LIT, and a chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, from Kitchen Press. She is author, with Kathleen Rooney, of Something Really Wonderful (dancing girl press, 2007) and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008).