Laynie Browne is the author of seven collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent publications include The Scented Fox, (2007, winner of the National Poetry Series), Daily Sonnets (2007) and Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series). Of Daily Sonnets Ron Silliman writes: “It’s a stunner and a delight.  A pure dose of heady oxygen” and  “. . . an icon for the generation of poets who are about to show up.” Two collections are forthcoming: Roseate, Points of Gold, from Dusie Books and The Desires of Letters, from Counterpath. She has taught creative writing at The University of Washington, Bothell, at Mills College in Oakland and at the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, where she is currently developing a new poetry-in-the-schools program for K-5 schools.