Christina Pacosz has been writing and publishing prose and poetry for nearly half a century and has several books of poetry, the most recent, Greatest Hits, 1975-2001 (Pudding House, 2002). Her work has appeared recently in I-70 Review, Jane's Stories III, Women Writing Across Boundaries and on-line in Pemmican. Christina has been a small press book bus driver, a waitress, a library clerk, a carpenter's apprentice, a poet in the schools in several states, and a teacher. Born and raised in Detroit, she has lived on both U.S. coasts, New York City, Alaska and southern Appalachia. For the past ten years she has been teaching urban Kansas City youth both sides of the state line; she and her husband of twenty years call Kansas City home.