Lois Marie Harrod is a relatively well-published poet moving into story writing. Her 13th poetry collection, Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis, was published by Word Tech (Cherry Grove) in February 2013. The Only Is won the 2012 Tennessee Chapbook Contest (Poems & Plays), and Brief Term, a collection of poems about teachers and teaching was published by Black Buzzard Press, 2011. Cosmogony won the 2010 Hazel Lipa Chapbook (Iowa State). She is widely published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey. Read her work on www.loismarieharrod.com.