About the Author

Andrena Zawinski is an award-winning poet and educator whose work appears widely in print and online. Her collections include Something About from Blue Light Press of San Francisco, winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and Traveling in Reflected Light, recipient of a Kenneth Patchen Prize in Poetry from Pig Iron Press of Youngstown, Ohio. Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com, Zawinski is also a longtime feminist and activist in the women against violence against women movement. She founded and organizes the San Francisco Bay Area Women's Poetry Salon.