Karen Houle is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Canada. She co-edited a book of essays on Hegel and Deleuze with Jim Vernon entitled, Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time (Northwestern University Press, 2013). Her monograph, Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought, was released in 2013 by Lexington Books. She is also the author of two books of poetry: Ballast (House of Anansi Press, 2000) and During (Gaspereau Press, 2008).