Amanda J. Bradley is the author of HINTS AND ALLEGATIONS (2009) and OZ AT NIGHT (2011), both from NYQ Books. She has published poetry in many journals, including The Best American Poetry Blog , Paddlefish , Lips , Rattle , The New York Quarterly , Poetry Bay , and Barefoot Muse . Amanda is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The New School, and she holds a PhD in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Brooklyn.