Bo Niles is a former magazine editor, photo stylist, and writer who specialized in home design. She has written several books on design subjects, as well as a travel memoir. Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Podium, from New York City's 92nd Street Y, where she is a member of the Himan Brown Senior Center poetry workshop. Finishing Line Press published her two previous chapbooks: intimate geographies and natural causes.