Paula Bonnell is a Boston writer of fiction and poems, with stories published in the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and three poetry collections: Airs & Voices, selected for the Ciardi Prize by Mark Jarman; Message, which includes "Midwest" as heard on The Writer's Almanac and the "Eurydice" sequence, chosen for a Poet Lore publication prize by Albert Goldbarth; and a chapbook, Before the Alphabet, a story in poems of a child's kindergarten year. She has made her living as a lawyer. More at paulabonnell.net