Tresha Faye Haefner's work appears in various journals and magazines, including BloodLotus, Melusine, Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, and Rattle. Her poem, “A Walk Through the Parking Lot at Midnight” won the Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize from The Cincinnati Review. “I Will Arise Now and Go to Los Angeles” won the summer poetry contest hosted by Writer’s Row, and her poem, "Vermin" was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of 2 chapbooks, The Lone, Breakable Night from OutoftheBlue Poetry Press, and Take This Longing, which will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. Although Tresha's formal education is in psychology, she considers her true calling to be both teaching and writing poetry. She has studied with luminaries such as Kim Addonizio, Sally Ashton, Brendan Constantine, Mathew Dickman, and Eloise Klein Healy, and currently teaches private poetry workshops in Culver City and on-line, for poets both new and established. The greatest gift of her craft, she says, is not the surprising line-break, but the ability of poetry to surprise, and break open the human heart.