her poetry has appeared in such publications as The Florida Review, Calyx, Pearl, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Family Matters: Poems of our Families, The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and The Rollins Book of Verse: 1885 –2010. A new chapbook, I Will Meet You at the River, will be published by Finishing Line Press in May.

volunteers with WriteGirl, an organization in Los Angeles providing workshops and mentors for high school girls interested in writing. She also works with an adult literacy program. Her poems appear in the anthologies Bombshells and Knocking at the Door, as well as numerous journals including Natural Bridge, Reed, and the final issue of Runes. She has worked as an editor with Fabulous Realities at San Diego City College and the independent journal Absomaly.

is seventy–seven years old and lives in Milbridge, Maine. Since retirement he has been able to pursue a life–long interest in poetry and has had poems published, or accepted for publication, in a number of journals including, The Café Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Passager, and Poetry East. He has been both a farmer and a public–relations man. In subtle word–portraits of Down East people, he heeds a muse who wears muddy boots and slings hash in local cafés.