Joan I SiegelAuthor of two titles from Deerbrook Editions, A PASSING (2015) and HYACINTH FOR THE SOUL (2009), Siegel is recipient most recently of Poetry Quarterly's Rebecca Lard Award, New Letters Poetry Award and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize. A finalist for th Pablo Neruda Prize, she was an International Merit Award Winner in Atlanta's 2014 International Poetry Competition. Published widely in journals and anthologies, Siegel lives in the lower Hudson Valley of New York State. Emerita Professor of English at SUNY/Orange, she volunteers at a local no-kill animal shelter, tends to 10 rescued cats, plants a summer garden and watches it grow. Read More Read Less