Nancy Bevilaqua attended Reed College and the NYU M.A. Program in English/Creative Writing. She has worked as a case manager/counselor in New York City and New Jersey for people with AIDS, the homeless, etc., and as a freelance travel writer. Her poems have been published in or accepted for future publication by Apogee Journal, Kentucky Review, Menacing Hedge, Construction, here/there, Hubbub, Houseboat, and other publications.