CYNTHIA ATKINS (Rockbridge County, Virginia) first collection of poems "Psyche's Weathers" will be forthcoming from WordTech in Nov. 2007. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bloomsbury Review, BOMB, Chelsea, Caketrain, The Florida Review, Luna, New York Quarterly, Pearl, Seattle Review, Seneca Review, Sou'wester, and Verse, among others. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Roanoke College She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Rockbridge. County, VA with her husband and son and hopes for more peaceful times in the forseeable future.