Kathleen Henderson Staudt has worked as a teacher, poet, and spiritual director at Virginia Theological Seminary, Wesley seminary, the University of Maryland, College Park, and Washington National Cathedral. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Weavings, Christianity and Literature, Cross Currents, Sewanee Theological Review, Living Prayer, The Anglican Theological Review, Ruminate, Spiritus and Presence, and others. She is the author of At the Turn of a Civilization: David Jones and Modern Poetics and two other books of poems: Waving Back: Poems of Mothering Life, and Good Places.