Janet Cannon is from the Boston area originally, but she has lived in Manhattan, San Francisco, Taos, Tucson, and Seattle, among other places in the USA. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa where she also did graduate work. Janet Cannon has been an editor at Scholastic Books, and a technical writer and editor at several major high-tech corporations. She has taught oral history writing workshops at the NYC Public Library--Chelsea Branch; and she has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) at The New School in NYC, and community colleges in New York and New Mexico. Janet’s poems have been published in many literary journals such as Berkeley Poetry Review (University of California), The Midwest Quarterly (Pittsburgh State University), Texas Review (Sam Houston State University), New York Quarterly, and G.W. Review (George Washington University)—among others. She has received awards from ASCAP, the Rio Grande Writers Association, and Bless Me Anima. Janet is the author of three published chapbooks Day Laborers (Plan B Press), The Last Night in New York (Homeward Press), and Percipience (Cross Cut Saw Press, now CC. Marimbo). Her chapbook, Saying and Telling is a quarter finalist in the 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize. Janet has read her poems and performed via singing the spoken word all over the United States. Janet Cannon's website is: IsleWrite.com