Ms. Laura Klinkon, née DiLiberto in the Province of Enna, Italy, studied literature and language at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., at American University, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere as part of continuing and independent study. She has been employed in writing, translating, and substitute teach- ing in various cities including New York, Washington, D.C. and her adopted home town of Rochester, N.Y., where she has raised two children together with her former husband, Heinrich Klinkon, now deceased. She is a member of Just Poets and Rochester Poets as well as Writers & Books in Rochester, N.Y.; she has read her poems in the Eastman School of Music’s Women in Music Festival, and appeared in several anthologies, including Liberty’s Vigil and Le Mot Juste. During the past year, her poems have appeared regularly in the online, Canto Magazine.