Michele F. Cooper has published poetry and poetic prose in many journals including Poetry Now, nycpoetry.com, Poetry Motel, poetrymagazine.com, Fiction International, American Writing, Nedge, CQ (California Quarterly), Faultline, Black Buzzard Review, Atom Mind, Sea Change, The Frontier, Arachne, World Order, Online Poetry and Story, the Jewish Spectator, and in a chapbook, Women on Women.  She is the second-place winner in the 1999 Galway Kinnell Poetry Competition and won honorable mention in the 1999 Sacramento Poetry Competition.  She is also the author of two books, founding editor of the Newport Review and Crone's Nest literary magazines, and of a chapbook series, Premier Poets.  She lives on a horse farm in Portsmouth, R.I.