About the Author:

About the Author:

Denise Calvetti Michaels’ poems and lyric essays are published in Paterson Literary Review, City Works Press, Yours Truly, Crosscurrents and other journals and anthologies including The Milk of Almonds, Feminist Press; Beyond Forgetting, Kent State University Press; In Praise of Farmlands, Whit Press and between sleeps, en theos press; and the 2012 Redmond Centennial Poetry Project.  In 2008 she was awarded the Crosscurrents Prize for her prose poem, “Notes from New Orleans” by the Washington Community College Humanities Association.  A 2010 fellow of the Jack Straw Writers Program and graduate of Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program for Writers, she works as Associate Faculty of Psychology at Cascadia Community College in Bothell, Washington, and lives in Kirkland with her husband, Kirk, near their children and grandchildren.