Irene WillisAbout Irene Willis: Irene Willis has published five collections of poetry: They Tell Me You Danced (University Press of Florida, 1995); At the Fortune Café (recipient of the 2005 Violet Reed Haas Award and a National Book Award nominee; Those Flames Bay Oak Publishers, Ltd., 2009); Reminder (Word Poetry, 2014); and Rehearsal (IPBooks, 2018). She has also edited two anthologies, both published by IPBooks): Climate of Opinion (2018) and What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration, co-edited with Jim Haba. Her poems have also appeared in many journals and anthologies, both print and online. Awards for her poetry include a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony for the Arts, and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Berkshire/Taconic Foundation. She attended St. Lawrence University, holds a B.S. in Education from SUNY Fredonia, a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from New York University and MFA in Poetry from New England College. Having taught for many years in high schools, colleges and graduate schools, most recently at Westfield State University and American International College, she is now retired and living in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, where she works from home as a free-lance writer and editor. An emeritus member of the Authors' Guild, she is also an Educator Associate of the International Psychoanalytic Association and Poetry Editor of the online publication, International Psychoanalysis (www.internationalpsychoanalysis.net), where she has a monthly column called Poetry Monday. Read More Read Less