Nancy RichardsonNancy Richardson has written poetry for much of her life and has interwoven her professional work for social justice with her poems. She has published poems in journals and anthologies and has published another chapbook, Unwelcomed Guest, in additionto The Fire's Edge. She has honed her skills through workshops and at Vermont College where she earned her MFA. She was an early and continuing supporter of the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire where she served on the Board. At Vermont College she focused on poetry in response to war and injustice, and worked under poets David Wojahn and Rick Jackson. Her poetry has focused on the rust-belt of Ohio and concerns the effects of industrial dislocation on the people of the area. She attended Kent State University and has written several poems on the shootings there. In her professional work, Nancy, has served as public policy liaison to the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Governor of Massachusetts and has run research studies and local programs in Vermont and Maine. She holds a Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Special Education from Kent State University and a Master's Degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She lives and works in Vermont. Read More Read Less