About the Author

Sahli A Cavallaro is a native New Yorker practicing clinical psychology in Sacramento California. She comes from a family tradition of poets so she started writing poetry as a young child. Her great great grandfather was a poet who had read humorous animal poetry, like other common poets in Sicily, in town squares at the foot hills of Mount Etna. Her poetry is inspired by William Carlos Williams, Garcia Lorca and May Swenson and reflects the influences of surrealism, Zen, naturalism, animal ethology/ecology and LGBT issues. Sahli lives with her two dogs, kayak and Mac in California.