How to Study Birds gracefully and evocatively lingers in the spaces between consciousness and the natural world, swinging between what we know and don’t know about systems, the body, and the interior life of what surrounds us.

A native Midwesterner, Sarah J. Gardner’s wanderlust has since taken her to Scotland, New York, Minnesota, and now Texas. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The North American Review, The Cortland Review, Runes Review of Poetry, Calyx, Cranky Literary Journal, and Heliotrope. She was recently honored to receive an International Merit Award from The Atlanta Review. Sarah teaches creative writing to disadvantaged youth through Houston's Writers in the Schools. Visit her website: www.sarahjgardner.net.