Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky. For the past 20 years, she has lived in Los Angeles, where she's been active in the literary community as both poet and teacher of creative writing. She also spends several months of each year traveling and teaching throughout Europe. Her first collection of poems, Sacrifice, was published by Cahuenga Press in 1997. A third volume, tentatively entitled Late, is due from BOA Editions, Ltd., in 2003. Ms. Woloch is the director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild, a week-long celebration of poets and poetry held in the San Jacinto mountains of Southern California each July, and has recently joined the faculty of the new low-residency MFA program in creative writing at New England College. She and her husband, the poet Thomas Lux, will relocate to Atlanta in the fall of 2002.