Judith Arcana's most recent book is the poetry collection, What If Your Mother (2005). New this year (2008) are a five-poem folded broadside and a chapbook manuscript, Family Business. Among her prose books is Grace Paley’s Life Stories: A Literary Biography. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in journals and anthologies for more than thirty years. A native of the Great Lakes region, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit her on the web at:  www.juditharcana.com.