Long Islander by birth, CHERYL A. RICE has lived in New York’s Hudson Valley for over forty years. A featured reader at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, Caffe’ Lena in Saratoga Springs, and venues in between, her work has been appeared in Chronogram, Home Planet News, Florida Review, Misfit Magazine, Trailer Park Quarterly, Ragged Lion Journal, and Long Island Quarterly, among others. Books include Love’s Compass (Kung Fu Treachery Press), Until The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press, with Guy Reed), and Moses Parts the Tulips (APD Press. Rice is a member of Calling All Poets, Poetry Society of Woodstock, Albany Poets, and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild. She is the founder/host of the now-defunct Sylvia Plath Bake-Off, held from 1993 to 2002. RANDOM WRITING, Rice’s workshop “for new and used poets,” has been offered for over twenty years at such venues as the Poetry Barn in Hurley and the AIR Studio Gallery in Kingston. She earned a BS at SUNY New Paltz, and half of an MA at the University at Albany.