Jacqueline Berger’s first poetry collection, The Mythologies of Danger, selected by Alberto Rios, won the Bluestem Award and was published in 1998. It went on to win the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award the same year. Her second book, Things That Burn, selected by Poet Laureate Mark Strand, was the 2004 winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize and was published through the University of Utah Press. The Gift That Arrives Broken won the Autumn House Poetry Prize was published in 2010, and some poems from the book were featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac. She is a professor of English at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California and lives in San Francisco with her husband. Bruce Snider, author of Paradise, Indiana comments about your latest book: “Everything has a place in Berger’s concise and compelling narratives as she examines intersections of memory and loss, exploring the infinite ways the past shadows the present.” Please tell us how your fourth book, The Day You Miss Your Exit (Broadstone Books, 2018), came about: This book was tricky. I spent more years writing and then completely discarding the contents than I have with any of my other books. My parents continue...