Tree Bernstein received her BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University. She has worked as a freelance arts writer, graphic designer and university professor. Bernstein’s TreeHouse Press publishes limited-editions of poetry and poetic memoir. (treepress.com) She was most recently published in Uncontained: Writers and Photographers in the Garden and at the Margins, edited by Jennifer Heath, Baksun Books, 2007. She currently hosts The Poetry Lounge at the Montgomery Street Playhouse in Ojai.