Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Ph.D. the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of over two dozen books including most recently Miriams Well a novel; Every- day Magic; and the award-winning Chasing Weather: Tornadoes Tempests and Thunderous Skies in Word and Image with weather chaser Stephen Locke. She curates 150KansasPoems.Wordpress.com out of which three anthologies have been published including the recent Kansas Time + Place co-edited with Roy Beckemeyer. Shes co-editor of Konza: A Bioregional Journal on Living in Place. Founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College where she teaches Mirriam-Goldberg leads writing workshops widely and with singer Kelley Hunt writing and singing retreats. Caryn completed the Bhaktivana Yoga with Heart teaching training program with Gopi Sandal and Anna Guest-Jellys certification in teaching Curvy Yoga. She regularly studies with Anne Underwood at the Yoga Center of Lawrence and with the sky trees and prairies in her backyard. www.CarynMirriam Goldberg.com