Harriet Zinnes is Professor Emerita of English of Queens College of the City University of New York. Her many books of poetry include DRAWING ON THE WALL (2002), WHITHER NONSTOPPING (2005), LIGHT LIGHT OR THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH (2009), WEATHER IS WHITHER (2012), and HARRIET ZINNES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (2014), all from Marsh Hawk Press. She is also contributing editor of The Hollins Critic and a contributing writer as art critic of NY Arts Magazine.