Katharyn Howd Machan grew up in Woodbury, CT, a 1950s childhood. Since 1975 she has lived in Ithaca, NY, as a Writing professor at Ithaca College, with a stint at Northwestern University for a doctorate in the performance of literature. She has taught belly dancing on the island of Skyros, Greece, in the Aegean, an island of her heart which she has visited ten times. Her most recent published collections are A Slow Bottle of Wine (Comstock Writers, Inc.) and Dark Side of the Spoon (The Moonstone Press).
