Hilda Weiss has poetry published or forthcoming in Spillway, Panoply, Cultural Weekly, California Journal of Poetics, The Comstock Review, Salamander, Schuylkill Journal, and Rattle, among others. She has also been published in several anthologies. Her chapbook, Optimism About Trees, was nominated for a Pushcart prize. She is co-founder and curator for www.Poetry.LA [2], a website featuring videos of poets and poetry venues in Southern California. A fourth generation Californian, she lives, writes and grows her own vegetables in a garden full of native California plants in Santa Monica.