Ellen Bass co-edited the groundbreaking book, No More Masks!: An Anthology of Poems by Women and has published four previous volumes of poetry, I’m Not Your Laughing Daughter, Of Separateness and Merging, For Earthly Survival, and Our Stunning Harvest. Her nonfiction books include I Never Told Anyone, Free Your Mind, and The Courage to Heal, which has been translated into nine languages. Among her awards are the Elliston Book Award from the University of Cincinnati, The Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod/Hardman, and the Larry Levis Editor’s Prize from The Missouri Review. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA, where she has taught creative writing since 1974.