Deanna ShapiroDeanna Shapiro is a poet and a painter whose poems have appeared in Poetica, The Aurorean, Tapestries, Penwood Review, Drash: Northwest Mosaic, The Mountain Troubadour, Blueline, The Addison Independent, and ZigZagLitMag among others. She is the winnr of the Arthur Wallace Peach Memorial Award for 2009 and the Marion Gleason Memorial Award for 2014 and 2016 from the Poetry Society of Vermont of which she is a member. She is also a member of the Otter Creek Poetry Workshop and the Suncoast Writers Guild. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Shapiro has a degree in English Literature from Hunter College and holds graduate degrees in education and psychology from City College. She taught kindergarten and served as a school psychologist in both New York City and Westchester County school systems. She was a mediator and interfaith minister in New York State. Deanna lives in the Champlain Valley of Vermont with her husband, Charlie. She is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of two granddaughters. Read More Read Less