Wendy Howe is an English teacher and free lance writer who lives with her life partner and teenage step daughter in Southern California. Her Spanish style house overlooks a field of Joshua trees that embrace a spectacular skyline and lodge a host of crows, ravens and one recluse owl that appears on cloudy nights when the moon is dissolved in mist. They enhance her Bohemian spirit and imagination as much as poetry. Writing is an integral part of her existence, as essential to her being as breathing air. She is inspired by life, its nature, people and history. She often refers to herself as a daydreamer drifting in a blend of wind chimes. She has been published in a variety of on-line and in-print literary journals including : Stirring, A Literary Collection, 3rd Muse, Eclectica, Panda Poetry, The-Muse-Apprentice-Guild, The Green Tricycle, Skyline Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, Saucy Vox, Mi-Poesias, Lotus Blooms Journal, Niederngasse, and recently served as co-editor of The Baroque Review.