Ellen Sander, a pioneering New York rock journalist, author of Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties, incubated her poetry in Bolinas, California in the seventies. Hawthorne is her homage to those poets and those times in Bolinas, in the early mid 1970's when Bolinas was rife with poets and poetry, in a thriving and spicy small town culture. After a stint in Los Angeles, she was an editor at Women of China magazine in Beijing in 2005, having taught college Conversational English in both Xiamen and Beijing. She was the Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine in 2013 and 2014, where she lives today, near Head of the Tides. Her poetry has been published in Chiron Review, Social Anarchism, Saturday Afternoon Journal, Dongxi, The Maine Review, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Off The Coast, the 2016 anthology, Cross-Strokes as well as the re-launch of Oculus Vox. She is on the board of the Belfast Poetry Festival and a member of Beyond Baroque. Her son, daughter-in-law, grandchild live in Brooklyn, New York, her siblings in Manhattan so regular forays to the Empire City are a recurring itinerary.
