Kathleen O’Toole is the author of the collections Meanwhile (David Robert Brooks, 2011) and Practice (Finishing Line Press, 2005). She has combined a more than thirty-year professional life in community organizing with teaching and writing. In 1991 she received an MA from Johns Hopkins University, and has taught writing at Hopkins and at the Maryland Institute College of Art. her poems have appeared in regional and national journals and magazines, including America, Christian Century, Little Patuxent Review, Margie, Natural Bridge, New Millennium Writings, Poetry, Poetry East, Potomac Review and Prairie Schooner. Find her on line in Beltway and Delaware Review. Anthologies in which her work has appeared include DC Poets Against the War and Inspired Results: Poets and Artists of Takoma Park, MD. Kathleen has attended the Community of Writers five times. www.kathleenotoolepoetry.com