Candace Pearson’s book, Hour of Unfolding, won the 2010 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry from Briery Creek Press, Longwood University. Her poems have appeared in fine journals nationwide, including Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Comstock Review, 5AM, PoemMemoirStory and MARGIE, as well as in several anthologies. By day, she is a freelance writer and lives in the Los Angeles hills. Portrait of Candace Pearson by Nancy Spiller: http://www.nancyspiller.org/