Betsy HughesA graduate of Vassar College, Betsy Hughes taught English for two years at The Baldwin School for Girls in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, before moving to Ohio as a newlywed and becoming one of the founding faculty at the Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohi, where she taught for 30 years. She earned her M.A. in English from the University of Dayton and, in retirement, returned to U.D. to moderate courses in literature, creative writing, and the arts for its Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Her passion for poetry has been fueled through the years as student, teacher, and participant in poetry groups.Winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition, Betsy's first book of sonnets, Breaking Weather, was published by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press in 2014. Other published collections of her sonnets are Bird Notes (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Forest Bathing (Antrim House Books, 2019). Her poems have also appeared in The Dayton Anthology, The Lyric, The Mad River Review, Mock Turtle Zine, and several anthologies published by the Ohio Poetry Association.The Sixth Sense of Loss is dedicated to Betsy's husband of 56 years, Jim Hughes, who died in 2020. This book includes not only sonnets but various other genres of formal poetry. Beginning with poems of grief, it goes on to explore existential/ecological crises and to find hope in the recurring cycles of nature and in the beauty and power of the arts.Betsy resides in Oakwood, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. Read More Read Less