Martha Rhodes is the author of At the Gate and the Director and one of the founding editors of Four Way Books, an independent literary press. She is also the Executive Founding Director of the CCS Reading Series. Her poems have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Columbia, Harvard Review, The Marlboro Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Rhodes teaches writing at the New School University and in the MFA Program at Emerson College. She lives in New York City.