About the Author

Jeanine Stevens is author of a previous book of poems, Sailing on Milkweed, and six chapbooks. She has won the MacGuffin Poet Hunt, the Stockton Arts Commission Award, the Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference Award (for a collection), and the Bay Area Poet's Coalition Prize. Her work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. A member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Sable and Quill (poets who are also artists), Stevens is Professor Emeritus at American River College. Raised in Indiana, she now lives with her husband, photographer Greg Chalpin, in Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.