Lorraine Henrie Lins is the author of five books of poetry and was a Pennsylvania county Poet Laureate. She is a founding member of No River Twice, an improvisational poetry troupe and served as Director of New and Emerging Poets with Tekpoet. Lins' poems have appeared in numerous publications, as well as several online journals and collections. Born and raised in the suburbs of central New Jersey, the self-professed Jersey Girl now resides along the coast of North Carolina where she is pefecting her y'all and has learned to pump her own gas.