Lorraine A. Vail received the 2009 Literary Artist of the Year Award from the Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of two Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grants in poetry. Gulf Coast Writers and FGCU Sanibel Writers Conference have awarded her First Place in their poetry contests. Lorraine is the creator of the collaborative ArtPoems Project (2007-2009). Published in numerous journals, she is the author of Between Land and Sea, Near Water and Paradise Found. She calls Sanibel Island, Florida home and divides summers between San Franci...