Fran MarkoverFran Markover grew up as a farmer's daughter in the Shawangunk Mountains. She is a psychotherapist and addictions counselor. Her writing has been informed and inspired by her past jobs: secretary, salesgirl, cafeteria worker, teacher. She has won poery residencies from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and her chapbook History's Trail was published by Finishing Line Press. GRANDFATHER'S MANDOLIN (Passager Books, 2021) was runner up in Passager's 2020 Morgenthau Poetry Prize contest for a writer 70 or older. Fran lives in Ithaca, New York, with her rescue cats and her husband Ron, who often does the housework so she can have time to write. Read More Read Less