Amy Ratto Parks is the author of the “Bread and Water Body,” the winner of the Merriam Frontier Chapbook Prize, and "Song of Days, Torn and Mended" (alice blue books). Radial Bloom, a verse novel (Folded Word Press), and a book of poems, "How To Remember The World," (forthcoming, Foothills Publishing). A former editor of Writer’s Digest, Fiction Writer magazine, and Cutbank Literary magazine, she received her MFA, MA, and EdD from the University of Montana where she currently teaches writing.