Heather Ann Schmidt is an adjunct professor at Oakland Community College. She edits tinfoildresses and is the editor/ founder of recycled karma press. Her poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies. She has also published some short stories and writes for the Oakland Press. Her books are Njaa (recycled karma press, 2009), Channeling Isadora Duncan (Gold Wake Press, 2009), The Bat's Lovesong: American Haiku (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2009), The Owl & the Muse: Collected Tanka (recycled karma press, 2009). Forthcoming are Transient Angels (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2010) and Cepheid Variables (Village Green Press, 2010). She holds an MFA in Poetry from National University and is pursuing her MA in English there as well. Currently, Ms. Schmidt is writing her first novel, Lessons From the Orient Express.
All Poems © Heather Ann Schmidt, 2009
