Jeannine Hall Gailey is a Seattle-area writer whose first book of poetry, Becoming the Villainess, was published by Steel Toe Books. Poems from the book have appeared on NPR's The Writer's Almanac and Verse Daily. Her work has appeared in journals like The Iowa Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, and The Evansville Review. Her chapbook, Female Comic Book Superheroes, is available from Pudding House Press and from her web site.