Jeanette CloughJeanette Marie Clough is a native of Paterson, New Jersey. After working as a waitress, children's dance teacher, and a librarian on a ship, she went on to receive a Masters degree from the University of Chicago. She currently works for the Getty Resarch Institute in Los Angeles. Her current collection is Island, from Red Hen Press (2007). Cantatas appeared in 2002 from Tebot Bach, and she is also author of two limited editions, Celestial Burn (Sacred Beverage Press) and a chapbook Dividing Paradise (The Inevitable Press). Among the journals publishing her poetry are Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Nimrod, Ohio Review, Atlanta Review, Poetrybay.com and Pool, and the 1994 and 1996 anthologies published by the Robinson Jeffers Room Poetry Series. She was a prize-winner in the competitions for the Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millenium, Spillway's Walt Whitman Call and Response, the dA Arts Center, and the Ruskin Art Club. She edited for Solo, A Journal of Poetry and contributes reviews to Poetry International. Clough co-created the monthly Poem X series in Santa Monica and was a founding member of the Hyperpoets series. Read More Read Less