Maureen McQuerry is the author of Nuclear Legacy (Battelle, 2000) and Student Inquiry (Creative Learning, 2003); her fantasy novel, Wolf Proof (Idylls) will be published this fall. Her poetry was a finalist for both the Hearst and Pablo Neruda awards and appears in Atlanta Review, Nimrod, North American Review and The Southern Review. She was the McAuliffe Fellow for Washington State in 2000. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 13. [bio updated 2006]