won the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize for Lick of Sense, published by Helicon Nine Editions in 2001. Her book, The Whole Shebang, will be published by Word Press in fall, 2010.  She studied with Jack Myers the spring of 1985, and received her Vermont College MFA in July, 1987.

her books of poetry include, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East , A Maze Me: Poems for Girls , Red Suitcase, Words Under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours (a best – selling poetry book of 2006).  Other works include seven prize – winning poetry anthologies for young readers, including This Same Sky, The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East, and What Have You Lost?  Her work has been presented on National Public Radio on A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac.  She has been featured on two PBS poetry specials: “The Language of Life with Bill Moyers” and “The United States of Poetry.”

is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and teacher, as well as founder and artistic director of The Original Theatre in Boston.  His work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Hawaii Review, LeGuepard (France), Kadmos (France), Prism International: Jejune (Czech Republic), Leopold Bloom (Budapest),  Antioch Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

teaches creative writing in Wilmington, North Carolina.  She has published poetry in Xenith and 2River View. She owes a great debt of gratitude to Jack Myers.  He was her first teacher to label her talented, and he remains the most generous teacher of creative writing she has ever had.