Sharon Tracey is the author of two previous poetry collections, Chroma: Five Centuries of Women Artists (Shanti Arts) and What I Remember Most Is Everything (All Caps Publishing). Her poems have appeared in Radar Poetry, Terrain.org, Lily Poetry Review, Pirene's Fountain, and the Ekphrastic Review, among others. She previously served as a director of research communications and interdisciplinary environmental programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and before that, as an environmental policy analyst and writer. She lives in the Connecticut River Valley in western Massachusetts.