Katharyn Howd MachanKatharyn Howd Machan, author of 35 previous collections of poetry, has lived in Ithaca, New York, since 1975 and, now as a full professor, has taught Writing at Ithaca College since 1977. After many years of coordinating the Ithaca Community Poets an directing the Feminist Women's Writing Workshops, Inc., she was selected to be Tompkins County's first poet laureate. Her poems (many of which have been awarded prizes) have appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies, and textbooks, and she has edited three thematic anthologies. Read More Read Less