Nancy Austin, a member of the PaperBirch Poets, was born in Whitefish Bay, WI, but has lived on both coasts, and points between. She holds a master's in psychology and ran a Community Support Program for individuals with mental illness for many years. She now resides in the Northwoods in a setting she had always hoped to move to. Austin serves as the Northwest Region VP of Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP). She has been published in various journals and has poetry collections titled Remnants of Warmth (Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books, 2016), The Turn of the Tiller, the Spill of the Wind (Kelsay Books, 2019), and a collaborative anthology with the PaperBirch Poets titled Stitching Earth to Sky (Water's Edge Press 2019).