Deborah Meadows grew up in Buffalo. After graduating from SUNY, Buffalo in Philosophy and English, she moved to California where she taught for many years. She is an Emerita faculty member at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, lives with her husband in Los Angeles' Arts District/Little Tokyo, and has published over a dozen books of poetry, most recently Neo-bedrooms, Lecture Notes, a duration poem in twelve parts, and The Demotion of Pluto: Poems and Plays. More at DeborahMeadows.com.