Carmen Germain is pleased to be a previous contributor to Cider Press Review. A painter as well as a poet, she is the author of These Things I Will Take with Me (Cherry Grove), and The Old Refusals (MoonPath Press). Her ink drawing Woman as Dance, too is forthcoming in Kansas City Voices, and her painting Rose Chaos will be published in a future issue of Oyster River. She lives on the Olympic peninsula of Washington State.
