Shavawn M. Berry’s work is forthcoming or has appeared in Westview - A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Concho River Review, North Atlantic Review, Synapse, Living Buddhism, The World Tribune, addictionsolutions.com, Blue Mountain Arts/SPS, and buddhajones.com, to name just a few. In 1998, she received her MPW (MFA) in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she specialized in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir.  She teaches writing fulltime at Arizona State University.  She can be reached at via email at shavawn.berry@asu.edu or through her website at www.shavawnmberry.com.