Kathryn Jacobs is a poet and medievalist who took her doctorate at Harvard before joining the faculty at Texas A & M - Commerce. Her volume of poetry, Advice Column, appeared in 2008, and she has over a hundred poems published in a wide variety of excellent journals such as Measure, New Formalist, Acumen, Washington Literary Review, Poetry Midwest, Slant, Decanto, Mezzo Cammin, The Barefoot Muse, and 14 by 14. She is also the author of a scholarly book on medieval marriage customs and sixteen articles. She has two daughters living and a son dead in 2005, at 18. Danse Macabre welcomes Dr. Jacobs to our pages.