Deborah MeltvedtDeborah Meltvedt is a high school teacher who loves to blend medical science and art in both the classroom and in her own writing. Deborah grew up in the suburbs and fields of the San Joaquin Valley whose landscapes and culture form a backbone to herpoetry. As a doctor's daughter and feminist, she feels strongly about women's health and reproductive rights and respecting the traditional and non-traditional paths women take in their lives. Her poems and stories have been published in the American River Literary Review, Susurrus, Under the Gum Tree, Tule Review, The Poeming Pigeon, and the Creative Non-Fiction Anthology What I Didn't Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher. Deborah lives in Sacramento with her funny and supportive husband, Rick Kushman, and their cat, Anchovy Jack, who in his former life used to be a pirate. Read More Read Less