Carole Stone is Professor of English, Emerita, Montclair StateUniversity. Her most recent books of poetry are Traveling with theDead, Backwaters Press, 2007 and a chapbook, Paris Etudes,Finishing Line Press, 2008. Other books include Lime and Salt,Carriage House Press and five poetry chapbooks. Her poems haveappeared online in the e-zines Umbrella, Poemeleon,Switched-on-Gutenberg, The Muse Apprentice Guild and a chapbookfrom Beard of Bees. Work in journals and anthologies includeXanadu, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod International Journal,Smiths Knoll 25 (U.K.), Orbis (UK), Ravishing Disunities, RealGhazals in English, Wesleyan University Press, Anthology of FatherPoems, St. Martin’s Press. She received Fellowships to HawthorndenCastle International Writers Retreat, Scotland, Chateau de Lavigny,Switzerland, the Rothermere Institute of American Studies, OxfordUniversity, England and three Fellowships from The New Jersey StateCouncil on the Arts.