Leslie Miller is a visual artist and this is her first poetry venture. Her artwork has been shown in galleries throughout Ohio as well as in Boston, New Jersey, Atlanta, Miami, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She was born in Elyria and raised in Oberlin, Ohio. Miller received a B.A. in religion from Bates College, Maine and a four-year studio diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After living for several years in the New England area, with a stint in Israel and one in Georgia, where her daughter Rebecca was born, she returned to Oberlin in 1989. She has worked at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College from 1990 to the present.