Amy Arlesa Ronhaar is an award nominated independent literary nonfiction writer and poet from Whidbey Island. Contact: amyaronhaar@gmail.com

“I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me.” Dylan Thomas

“I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer.” D. Walcott

“She’s dead now, thank goodness, and she doesn’t have to — nobody has to put up with that crap that she was writing all the time.” Martha Stewart