Danielle PierattiDanielle Pieratti is the author of By the Dogstar, the 2005 winner of the Edda Chapbook Competition for Women, and The Post, the Cage, the Palisade. She holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, and the Universty at Albany, and has taught college literature and creative writing prior to her current position as a high school English teacher. A 2014 Aetna Fellow of the Connecticut Writing Project, she also runs a writing workshop series for teachers at the University of Connecticut. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, five-year-old son, Luke, and new baby, Alice. Read More Read Less