Har­ri­et Shenkman was the Poet-in-Res­i­dence at the JCC of Mid Westch­ester. She earned a Ph.D. from Ford­ham Uni­ver­si­ty and is a pro­fes­sor emeri­ta at City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York. Her poet­ry awards include the Women’s Nation­al Book Asso­ci­a­tion Annu­al Writ­ing Con­test in Poet­ry and the Women Who Write Inter­na­tion­al Poet­ry and Short Prose Con­test. Her poet­ry appeared or will appear in Union, the Raynes Poet­ry Com­pe­ti­tion Anthol­o­gy, Evening Street Review, Third Wednes­day, Jew­ish Cur­rents, Jew­ish Mag­a­zine, Westch­ester Review. Oyez Review, The Alexan­dria Quar­ter­ly, Com­stock Review, The Berru Poet­ry Series, Yet­zi­rah, The Mar­bled Sigh, and in two chap­books, Tee­ter­ing and The Present Aban­doned. Her new poet­ry col­lec­tion, Won­der Wheel, is avail­able from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.