Yolaine M. St. Fort, a writer of Haitian descent, holds a M.A. in Creative Writing from Long Island University. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Some of her poems and prose can be found in Torch, Calabash, Vwa, The Caribbean Writer, Downtown Brooklyn , Poetry in Performance, So Spoke The Earth, For the Crowns of Your Heads, and others. She has read her poetry and prose in venues, such as St.John's University, The Bowery, Cornelia Street Cafe, The Caribbean Cultural Theatre, Fordham University, Long Island University, Pace University, Queens Museum of Art, and others. She is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti, a collective of poets from diverse backgrounds committed to the power of poetry to transform and educate.