About the Author

Jacqueline Gens is the co-director and one of the founders of the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College. For many years, she worked at the Naropa Institute (now University) in Boulder, CO, before joining the staff of the late poet, Allen Ginsberg in NYC. She is a regular contributor to a number of Buddhist publications. Her poetry chapbook, Primo Pensiero, with a foreward by Anne Waldman, was published by Shivastan Press in the fall of 2008. Poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Alembic Review, Henniker Review, Connotations, Poetry International, Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House (Salt Marsh Pottery Press), and The Mirror.