Award-winning poet and fiction writer Barbara Knott hosts The Grapevine Art and Soul Salon, online literary and art journal that "muses on being and becoming human." She makes her home in Atlanta. Her writing has been recognized locally (a first prize for a short story by Atlanta Writers Club), nationally (a first prize for a poem by New Millennium Writings and a third prize for a short story by Writers at Work, as well as a novel shortlisted by the James Jones First Novel Fellowship competition), and internationally (a poem shortlisted by Fish Publishing of Ireland). This is her third collection of poems and first book published by Finishing Line Press. www.barbaraknott.net