About the Author

Judith Kerman has published eight previous collections of poetry, as well as three books of translations of Cuban and Dominican women writers. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic in 2002. She founded Earth's Daughters magazine in Buffalo, NY and has run Mayapple Press, located in Woodstock, NY, since 1980. She is Professor of English Emerita from Saginaw Valley State University, where she previously served as Dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences. A literary trailer of her poem, Fragile, and her video documentary about Dominican Carnaval, as well as clips of several readings, can be seen on YouTube on the Judith Kerman channel.