About the Author:

Helen Raynes Staley has spent her life studying, teaching, and creating in the arts: from the Martha Graham Dance Studio to the The High School of Music and Art, to Queens College, to the University of Pennsylvania, to membership on faculties of universities in Paris and China. She has shown her photographs at galleries in Ireland and Albany. Now Emeritus Professor of English at the Sage Colleges, she and her husband, Harry Charles Staley, poet, and Emeritus Professor of English at The University at Albany, write and reside in Albany, New York.