About the Author

Patrice M. Wilson's previous publications include three chapbooks of poetry with Finishing Line Press titled When All Else Falters (Dec. 2003), On Neither Side (July 2009), and A Different Current (2011); two other chapbooks with other writers called Light to See By (Loose Hair Press, Honolulu, 1999) and Cooked, Washed, Swept, Dusted (Honolulu, 1998). Her poetry has recently appeared in Yes, Poetry; Eclipse, The Snail Mail Review, Conversations across Borders, Poetry Superhighway, Nightblade, Eunoia, The 2011 Rhysling Anthology, Common Ground, Bloodroot, Poiesis (#3 ), Transcendental Visions, Barbaric Yawp, and The Journal of New Jersey Poets. Her poetry has won the following honors: University of Hawai'i Myrle Clark Poetry Competition, Third Prize, 1992; Academy of American Poets UH Competition, Honorable Mention, 1991 and 1992; First runner up in Redgreene Press (Pittsburgh, PA) Poetry Chapbook Contest (combined 2000 and 2001 contest), September, 2001. Runner up in Dead Metaphor Press Chapbook Contest, 2001. Fifth Honorable Mention in Finishing Line Press's (Ohio) New Women's Voices Poetry Contest, Spring 2003. Nominated for the Rhysling Prize of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2011. She is Associate Professor of English at Hawai'i Pacific University in Honolulu Hawai'i.