Laura KlinkonLaura Klinkon, née DiLiberto in the Province of Enna, Sicily, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., studied literature and language at the University of Pittsburgh and at American University in Washington, D.C., completing additional coursework at variou other universities, including New York University, Middlebury College, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has been employed in teaching, editing, free-lance writing, and translating in various cities including New York, Washington, D.C., and her adopted home town of Rochester, N.Y., where she has also raised two children together with her former husband, Heinrich Klinkon, now deceased. She has been a member of Just Poets and Rochester Poets as well as a member of Writers & Books in Rochester, N.Y.; she has read her poems in the Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival, and appeared in several anthologies, including Liberty's Vigil and the Just Poets annual Le Mot Juste, as well as consecutively in the monthly online Canto Magazine. She has read in the Genessee Reading Series of Writers & Books and in a Poetry as Philosophy series with poet and phi- losopher David White, at Books, Etc. in Macedon, N.Y. and at the St. John Fisher College Skalny Center sponsored by Rochester Poets. In 2013 she published her full-length book of poems Trying to Find You with Kernel-Image, and in 2017, the chapbooks Kitchen Abrasives and Looking Askance, under the Stesichorus Publications, Rochester, N.Y. imprint. Read More Read Less