Stella Padnos received her B.A. from SUNY-Binghamton. Her poems have recently appeared, or are forthcoming, in Anthology, Common Ground Review and Southern Poetry Review. She won 3rd Place in the 2000 California State Poetry Society Contest, was a finalist in The Briar Cliff Review fourth annual poetry contest and received Honorable Mention in a Rambunctious Review poetry contest. (2000)