Marjorie Pagel sharpened her writing skills on articles for a community newspaper and since has published fiction, poetry, and essays. Six of her one-act plays have been produced at community theaters. She is a member of the Wisconsin Writers Association and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. While she has led writing classes and taught at Concordia University, she sees herself as a perennial student. You'll find her participating in courses and groups that reach from the East Coast to the West and back to the Midwest. Her work appears in Creative Wisconsin and The Sun Magazine, and in her previous books, The Romance of Anna Smith and Other Stories and Where I'm From: Poems and Stories.