Crystal Bacon, was a 1998 New Jersey State Council of the Arts grant recipient. As a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation poet, she has led Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain writing seminars for high school teachers in southern New Jersey. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications in the US and Canada, including the Ontario Review, Tampa Review, Massachusetts Review, Marlboro Review, and Antigonish Review as well as the anthology, Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City. An Associate Professor of Communication at Gloucester County College, she divides her time between New Jers...