Katharine Jager is a poet and medieval scholar. She is professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown and has published widely on late medieval English poetry, gender, and identity. She holds an MFA from NYU, and her poetry has appeared in The Good Life Review, The Gettysburg Review, Found, Commonweal, Friends Journal, The Red River Review, Bellevue, and in the Yale anthology Before the Door of God, among other places.