Debra McQueen teaches special education, seeks adventure, and travels to distant lands whenever she's not teaching. In the early 2000s, she published several articles in Sail and Cruising World magazines about sailing her sloop 10,000 miles. She has 3 poems forthcoming in Neon Literary Magazine. Most recently, her creative nonfiction pieces appeared in The Art of Medicine and Metaphors (Copernicus Healthcare Press, 2013). She came of age in San Francisco and spent the rest of her life headed south and east, for no discernible reason. At the moment, she lives in South Carolina.