These intimate and accessible poems move from public events to personal ones, explore creativity, age, marriage, early trauma, motherhood, family relationships, and travel, teaching us "we are never too old for rebirth, the hold of the miraculous."
Heather Tosteson is the author of two earlier poetry collections, The Sanctity of the Moment: Poems from Four Decades and Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English, as well as several works of fiction and non-fiction. She is the recipient of fellowships in poetry, fiction, and photography from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Hambidge Center for the Arts as well as a Discovery/The Nation poetry prize. A co-founder of Wising Up Press, she has co-edited and illustrated sixteen Wising Up Anthologies. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and PhD in English and Creative Writing from Ohio University.
