Harriet GleesonHarriet Gleeson was born, an only child, in Queensland, Australia. She grew up with humid weather, mango trees and her Irish Granny next door. She attended twelve years of Catholic school in the days when the protestant kids chanted 'Catholic dogs jup like frogs into the holy water'. She was a pious child, attempting, but I believe never completing, the nine First Fridays (a missed chance to amass celestial brownie points for shorter time in Purgatory.) She lived as a religious sister for thirty years, graduated from the University of New South Wales in science and math and taught in the order's schools. Notwithstanding the math/science, she has loved literature, especially poetry, all her life. She moved to the US in 1993 and retired with her partner to California's north coast in 2001 where she discovered a community rich in the practice of the arts, including a lively writing community. The popular community writing classes and their gifted teachers nurtured her unexplored itch to write. She scratched it grandly and with some trepidation by beginning to write poetry. Read More Read Less