Mary Orovan was Features Editor of US CAMERA MAGAZINE, and taught in the Humanities Department at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. Her poems have appeared in AVOCET, A JOURNAL OF NATURE POEMS, as well as in AMOSKEAG, THE FOURTH RIVER, FRESHWATER, HIDDEN OAK, MAIN CHANNEL VOICES, 13TH MOON and the two peace anthologies, POETRY FOR PEACE (SandStar Publications, 2002) and ECHOES FROM THE HEART, edited by Tycho Thal for the Twin Towers Orphan Fund, 2003.