Barbara Rockman is author of Sting and Nest, winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and to cleave winner of the National Press Women Book Prize and Finalist for the International Book Award. Her poems, widely published and anthologized, have received the Baskerville Prize, MacGuffin Award, and Southwest Poetry Prize. She’s taught poetry at Santa Fe Community College, Esperanza Shelter for Battered families, and in community workshops. Barbara is co-curator of HERE Gallery Poetry Reading Series and lives in Santa Fe, N.M.