Gail Hosking is a poet and creative nonfiction writer from Fort Campbell, Kentucky. She is the author of Snake's Daughter: The Roads in and out of War, Adieu, Retrieval, and The Tug. Two of her published essays were named "most notable" in Best American Essays, and she has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She taught at Rochester Institute of Technology for 15 years and, in 2015, received the Distinguished Lecturer Award with her talk "Majoring in the Human Experience." Hosking holds an MFA from Bennington College.