Heidi Lynn Staples is the author of two published collections of poetry, Guess Can Gallop (New Issues, 2004—New Issues Poetry Prize) and Dog Girl (Ahsahta, 2007). Her poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Along with the poet Amy King, she co-founded Poets for Living Waters, an international response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.