De Jackson wanted to be a PoetPirate when she grew up, but is slowly settling into life on dry land. She has published more than 50 poems in various journals and anthologies, and has been paid so far in author copies, subscriptions, garbanzo beans and one time, a whole dollar. De hails from the Vegas area, but her muse is a mutinous mermaid migrating from Lake Tahoe to the Northern Pacific Coast. Still, she scribbles something daily at whimsygizmo.wordpress.com.