Adele Steiner received her B.A. and M.F.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Maryland, and is currently a poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council. She has written a chapbook, Refracted Love (Bootleggers Press, 1993), and a book of poetry, Freshwater Pearls (Miller Press, 1997). Her poems have appeared in The Black Buzzard Review, M Magazine, Wordwrights, Maryland Poetry Review (where she received 2nd place in their 10th Anniversary Contest) and elsewhere. (2000)