Julia Gordon-Bramer is an award-winning poet, writer, scholar, speaker, occasional university professor, and a professional tarot card reader. She has appeared in the Arkansas Review Journal of Delta Studies, Margie: the American Journal of Poetry, and many others. Her book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath, is forthcoming with Stephen F. Austin State University Press in spring 2014. The Riverfront Times recently voted her St. Louis' Best Local Poet for 2013. She lives in St. Louis with her husband, a clowder of cats, and two grown sons on the periphery. [Poetry]