Dorothy Howe Brooks' work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary magazines, most recently in Tampa Review, Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, Louisiana Literature, Broad River Review, and Chariton Review. Her second chapbook, Interstices, was published in 2009 by Finishing Line Press, and her full length poetry collection, A Fine Dusting of Brightness, was published in 2013 by Aldrich Press. She teaches "Writing Poetry" in the LifeLong Learning Institute at Florida Southwestern State College in Punta Gorda, Florida.