Roz Levine is a member of the Los Angeles Poet and Writers Collective, founded by her long-time teacher, Jack Grapes. Her poems and short pieces have appeared in ONTHEBUS, The Sun, Deliver Me, Forever in Love, I'll Have Wednesday, MO+TH and The Juice Bar. She is a community activist and many of her online letters have appeared in The New York Times. (Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher)