Dorinda HaleDorinda Hale, also published as Dori Hale, began writing poetry seriously while a graduate student at Western Washington University, where she earned an M.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing. During a long, eclectic career in a varety of positions-welfare caseworker, teacher, editor, housecleaner, typist, software documentation manager, translation project manager-she wrote and published sporadically in a number of journals. Disorientation and the Weather is her first chapbook. Most recently, her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Passager, where "After Grief" was chosen for the 2017 poetry contest issue. Dori Hale lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and occasionally escapes to her primitive shack in Vermont, where she's pretty good with a chainsaw or brush hog. Read More Read Less