Colleen Lutz ClemensRebecca Helm Beardsall teaches in the English Department at DeSales University. She grew up in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and has lived in various places since 1991, including Scotland, Canada, Montana and, most recently, New Zealand. She graduated wih a BA in English from DeSales University in 2005 and received her MA in English from Lehigh University in 2008. She has fifteen years' experience in freelance writing in the United States and abroad. Her poetry has been published in various literary journals. She currently resides in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband and her cat, Myrtle.

Colleen Lutz Clemens, a daughter of the Lehigh Valley, is an assistant professor of English at Kutztown University. Along with her poetry publications in English Journal, her essay in the anthology Click recounts her story of being her high school's first female tuba player. Her essay about her Pappy, who worked at Bethlehem Steel, was featured on Philadelphia public radio's This I Believe series. She currently resides in Bucks County with her husband and two dogs. Read More Read Less