Michelle Hartman (Keller, Texas) is on the board of directors for the Dallas Poets Community, as well as having been guest editor for Red River Review. Her work has been published in Illya's Honey, Red River Review, Concho River Review, Main Street Rag Journal, Texas Poetry Project Calendar, Eclectica, Sojourn, Aries, decant, RiversEdge, and Mirror Dance, as well as several anthologies.

Hartman's work previously appeared in Apparatus Magazine in February of 2010.