TRINA GAYNON spent forty years in California, where she claimed her poetic voice. She later moved to a suburb dropped on top of a marsh near Portland, Oregon, which she shares with her husband, a wealth of birds, an occasional snake, and a growing population of beavers. She leads a group of poetry readers at the Senior Studies Institute. Her work appears in Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, other anthologies, and numerous journals. Her chapbook, An Alphabet of Romance, is available from Finishing Line Press.
