Sharon Ruetenik servers as ESL and Writing Center Coordinator for SUNY Delhi, New York. In addition, she works as an adjunct instructor teaching composition and literature classes. Ruetenik's poetry has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Phoebe, New Press, and Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond. She has been awarded residencies at the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development's Platte Clove site and the Constance Saltonstall Colony for the Arts.