Nancy KassellNancy Kassell is the author of BE(LONGING) (Dos Madres Press, 2016) and TEXT(ISLES) (Dos Madres Press, 2013). Her poems have been published in several anthologies, including Speaking for my Self: Women Poets in Their Seventies and Eighties ad Verse and Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics, and in literary journals (Notre Dame Review, BORDERLANDS, Eclipse, Willow Spring, Salamander, and others). Her translation of Non omnis moriar by Zuzanna Ginczanka (from the Polish, with Anita Safran), the first English translation of this poem, appeared on AGNIOnline and will be published in the Posen Foundation's 2017 volume of The Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. An essay, Almost Not, included in this chapbook, was published on the AGNI blog this year. Her essays were also included in The Road Retaken: Women Rediscover Academe; When a Lifemate Dies; and in the New York Times. Kassell was a founding member of The Writers' Room of Boston. In a previous life, Kassell taught Greek and Latin languages and literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, and UMass-Boston and published articles on Horace and Ovid. She is also the author of a feminist cultural study, The Pythia on Ellis Island: Rethinking the Greco- Roman Legacy in America. She lives in Brookline, MA. Read More Read Less