TERRI FORD is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren WEilson College. She performs her poems at venues around the country, and has collaborated with Uncle Glockenspiel, who "makes a lot of noise to accompany her peoms. For 6 years she ran a poetry reading series in the greater Cincinnati area, where she still lives "triumphantly." Grants from the Ohio Arts Council, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She was the Ohio Arts Council Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts (summer 1999).