For over twenty-five years, Carol Edelstein (www.galleryofreaders.org) has been leading writing workshops, organizing a reading series, and helping to run a small press in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is the author of two collections of poems, including The Disappearing Letters, winner of the Perugia Press Award in 2005. Her poetry has appeared recently in The Georgia Review and The Berkeley Poetry Review, and her fiction in Alaska Quarterly Review.