Phyllis Carito, MFA, Manhattanville College. She teaches Creative Writing at Columbia-Greene Community College. Her publications include a novel, Worn Masks, and a chapbook, barely a whisper. Other published work has appeared in Stone Highway Review, Passager Journal, Inkwell Review, Voices in Italian Americana, Fired Up! (Berkshire Women's Writers) Oasis Journal, Vermont Literary Review, and Returning Woman Review.