BARBARA HENNING, is the author of two novels and six books of poetry. Her new novel, You Me and the Insects was released in June 2005 by Spuyten Duyvil . Other works include a series of photo-poem pamphlets (Aerial View, Found in the Park, Up North, My Autobiography, Teacher Training, Black Grapes, Seventh Street, Thirty Miles to Rosebud, The Animal I Am, and Aham Asmi); a novel, Black Lace (S.D., 2001); and Detective Sentences (S.D., 2001), In Between (Spectacular Diseases, England); Me & My Dog (Poetry New York, 1999); Love Makes Thinking Dark (United Artists, 1995); The Passion of Signs (Leave Books, 1994); Smoking in the Twilight Bar (United Artists, l988). Poems have been published in many magazines, including Poetry International, the Paris Review, The World, Talisman, Lingo, Shiny and others. During the early nineties, she was the editor of Long News in the Short Century, a journal of art and writing. She is Professor Emeritus at Long Island University in Brooklyn where she also co-directed the Creative Writing Program with Lewis Warsh. She is presently living in Tucson, Arizona.