Ellen Gerneaux WoodsEllen Gerneaux Woods grew up in Indiana and came to California in the sixties to complete her BA in English at UC Berkeley. She was captivated by the Civil Rights Movement and after graduation devoted herself to paralegal work. She later received a M in Psychology and worked as a psychiatric social worker for Alameda County for fifteen years. After retirement she dedicated herself to studying, writing and publishing memoir and poetry and her work appears in online and print journals and anthologies. Her debut memoir Warriors in Transition: A Memoir in Twenty-Eight Stories was published in 2014. She is a judge for the Prose Poem category of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition and lives in Oakland, CA. Read More Read Less