Lorene Delany-Ullman is a native Californian, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine. She formerly worked as a technical writer for both a major aircraft company and a marketing research firm. She has been published most recently in Perihelion, Versal, Upstreet, Harpur Palate, Burnside Review and the anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease. She was the managing editor for Faultline, Volume 12, UC Irvine’s literary journal. She currently teaches composition and poetry at UC Irvine. She is also one of the founding members of the Casa Romantica Poetry Reading Series in San Clemente, California.