Laurinda Lind is a caregiver and former journalist and composition instructor in New York's North Country, minutes from Canada. Some of her poems are in Atlanta Review, New American Writing, Paterson Literary Review, and Spillway. She is a Keats-Shelley Prize winner and a finalist in six other recent competitions, including the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and the Joy Bale Boon Prize. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee.