Carol TownsendCarol Townsend is an Associate Professor of Design at State University College of New York at Buffalo State in Buffalo. She was raised on a small family dairy farm in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains whose one hundred-fifty acres she roamed asa child. Her family's rural delivery address was Happy Avenue, Swan Lake, always an embarrassing revelation. Since she was used to having dirt under her fingernails, she went on to earn a M.F.A. in ceramics from Ohio University. A Cinder In My Knee is her first chapbook. Read More Read Less