BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Virginia Michelle Heatter holds an Associate of Arts degree from County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, American Literary Review, Third Coast, Fugue, Cranky, 32 Poems, Swink Online, Southern Poetry Review, and other literary magazines. She is the co-author with A.J. Patrick Liszkiewicz of Blue Line to Wonderland, a limited-edition, mixed-media chapbook. Her work has also been anthologized at Poetry Daily and in the volume In Whatever Houses We May Visit: An Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians published by the American College of Physicians (ACP Press) in 2008. iii