Ailsa Kennedy Steinert lives in Manchester, Ma, taught at the Pingree School where she chaired the English Department for twenty years, and was a long time member of the Workshop for Publishing Poets under Barbara Helfgott Hyett in Brookline Ma. She has had work published in Orion, Sabctuary, Rough Places. Plain, poems of the Mountains, Beyond Forgetting, an anthology of poems on Alzheimer’s, and online in Blue Ocean Institute’s Sea Stories, and was a finalist in Inkwell’s 2007 poetry contest.