Chan­da Feld­man is the author of Approach­ing the Fields. Her poems have appeared in Best Amer­i­can Poet­ry, AGNI, Poet­ry mag­a­zine, and the South­ern Review, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She is the recip­i­ent of a fel­low­ship in lit­er­a­ture from the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts and a Steg­n­er Fel­low­ship in poet­ry from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. Feld­man is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of cre­ative writ­ing at Ober­lin College.