Constance NorgrenConstance Norgren became a passionate reader of poems as a teenager and began writing them in her thirties. She was a teacher of young children for three decades at PS 321 in Brooklyn. In 2005, she completed an MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College. She s the author of the chapbooks Falling Again (2012), published by Finishing Line Press and Same Boat (2008), published by 5 Spice Press. Norgren coauthored the book To Genesis in 2004 (with Lois Adams, Barbara Elovic, and Patricia Markert), a collection of Midrash poems also from 5 Spice Press. Her poems have been published in a variety of journals and in Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems from Accents Publishing. Photograph-Gaylani, Baghdad won first prize in the 2011 Annual Split This Rock Poetry Contest. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tom Keough, a graphic artist and landscape painter. TONIGHT'S QUIET was selected by Alfred Corn as winner of the Bright Hill Poetry Book Competition. Read More Read Less