Holaday Mason lives in Venice, California and is the author of two chapbooks, Light Spilling From Its Own Cup (Inevitable, 1999) and Interlude (Far Star Fire, 2001). She has just completed her second full length manuscript, Beauty Laughs, and serves regularly as artist-in-residence for Beyond Baroque for whom she co-edited the anthology Echo 681. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 12.