Kim Noriega is an award-winning poet, creative nonfiction writer, and teacher. She has won the San Miguel de Allende Literary Sala Flash Nonfiction Prize and has been a finalist for both the Edna St. Vincent Millay and Joy Harjo Poetry Prizes. Her poem "Heaven, 1963" was featured in former poet laureate Ted Kooser's syndicated column American Life in Poetry. She is the poetry editor of The Poetry Distillery and a teaching artist with The Poetry Barn. She is a certified facilitator of the Creative Regeneration Process and an expert-consultant in family literacy throughthe Pacific Library Partnership. She lives in San Diego with her husband, Ernie, and six cats, five of whom were once feral. More at Kimnoriega.com.