Bonnie BeckThe author is a police officer in northern Vermont where she has been a patrol officer and recently a school resource officer. She won Honorable Mention in the TOP COP competition in Washington, D.C. in 2008 for her dedication to Community Policing. onnie Beck grew up in Western Pennsylvania coal country with her four siblings above her family's funeral home. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and went onto Meredith College in NC where she student taught fourth grade. As a police officer in Vermont, Bonnie was moved to write about her experiences as she worked with the residents on her beat. Since she has been writing poems since childhood, it was a natural to write about the life on the streets as she encountered it. Over the years, most of her poetry was long lost or given away, but after reading Jeffrey Skinner's book The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir (The Writer's Studio), she decided to keep some. Read More Read Less