Rhonda Batchelor is the author of two collections of poetry, Bearings and Interpreting Silence. She has been anthologized in Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of 1994, Portals, Because You Loved Being a Stranger: 55 Poems Celebrate Patrick Lane, New Dimensions: A Perception of Poets and Something More Than Words. She lives in Victoria, B.C., and is the manager of Hawthorne Books. She is also the publisher of Reference West chapbooks.