Ellen Skilton is a professor of education whose creative writing has appeared in Cathexis Northwest Press, The Dillydoun Review, The Scapegoat Review, Philadelphia Stories, and The Dewdrop. In addition to being a poet, she is an educational anthropologist, an applied linguist, and a Fringe Fest performer. She is also an excellent napper, a chocolate snob, a swimmer, and lives in Philadelphia with a dog named Zoomer, a cat named Katniss, and some lovely humans.