Pamela Hughes is the author of two collections of poetry, Femistry and Meadowland Take My Hand (Three Mile Harbor Press). Her poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner; Canary; Brooklyn Review; Human Obscura; Literary Mama; Minnesota Review; PANK; Paterson Literary Review; Thema; Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, The Red Wheelbarrow and in other literary magazines. She graduated from Brooklyn College with an MFA in Creative Writing, teaches creative writing classes at Bloomfield College at Montclair State University and is the editor of Narrative Northeast, a literary and arts magazine that supports diverse voices and visions, as well as the environment. Visit her at: www.narrativenortheast.com or www.pamelahugheswrites.com