Avra Wing is the author of two novels, Angie, I Says, made into the film Angie, and After Isaac, for young adults. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Michigan Quarterly Review, Hanging Loose, Dunes Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Silk Road. She won the 2011 Pecan Grove Press Chapbook Competition with her collection, Recurring Dream. Previously an adjunct professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, she has, for the past 10 years, led a NY Writers Coalition workshop at the Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York. Avra is also a mentor for Brooklyn Poets.