Winifred HughesWinifred (Winnie) Hughes is a reformed academic and active birder living in Princeton, NJ. Winnie comes from a "whole family of scribblers" her mother Josephine Nicholls Hughes was a poet, her father Riley Hughes, a novelist, and her three siblings, ll writers, including her sister Hildred Crill, a poet who lives in Stockholm. Currently she teaches nature writing and ecopoetry at the Watershed Institute in Pennington, NJ, and leads many bird walks in the local open spaces. She is author of two prize-winning chapbooks, Frost Flowers (2019) and Nine-Bend Bridge (2015). The Village of New Ghosts is her first full-length collection of poetry, and Passager's Henry Morgenthau III Poetry Prize winner for a first book of poems by a poet 70 or older.Winnie is a longtime member of U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative, established in the 70s, dedicated to fostering new poets. She was married to the late Fred Spar; their two grown sons are Adam and Alex Spar. Read More Read Less