Pat Anthony writes the backroads, mining characters, relationships and herself. A recently retired educator and former poetry editor, she holds an MA in Humanities, poems daily, edits furiously and scrabbles for honesty no matter the cost. A daily contender with bi-polar disorder, poetry is both release and compulsion, mania and crash, as she strives for the balance beneath her Libra stars. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Awkward Mermaid, Broadkill Review, Cholla Needles, Heron Tree, Nature Writing, PKA Presents, Passager, Quail Bell, Third Wednesday, The Avocet, The Blue Nib, Courtship of Winds, The Perch, Open Minds Quarterly, Waterways, among others.