Sharon Venezio received an MA in creative writing from San Francisco State University where she won the Mark Linenthal Award for her poem “Meanwhile.” She is currently completing a manuscript titled The Silence of Doorways. She is a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets and a member of Writers at Work. Her poems have appeared in Two Hawks Quarterly, Reed, Transfer, Folly, and numerous other journals. She lives and works in Los Angeles. She can be found at sharonvenezio.com