received her MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in Poetry and Fiction, and she teaches Poetry, Humanities and World Literature at Lindenwood University, St. Louis. An award-winning published poet and short-story writer, she has been a tarot card reader for more than thirty years. She is currently seeking a publisher for her work in progress, Fixed Stars Govern a Life , a reinterpretation of Sylvia Plath's Ariel