Carol DineCarol Dine is the author of two books of poetry and is widely published in literary magazines, including THE BITTER OLEANDER, Blue Mesa Review, Prairie Schooner, and Salamander. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies TO MEND THE WORLD: WOMEN REFECT ON 9/11 and Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer, and in The Boston Globe. She received the Frances Locke Memorial Award from the Bitter Oleander Press for a poem from her series based on the art of Van Gogh and is the recipient of the Sword of Hope Award from the American Cancer Society for her journal Treatments, published in the Boston Herald. She is a public speaker on surviving breast cancer and has been a poet-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She teaches at Suffolk University and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Read More Read Less