Lois Mathieuois Mathieu, a Connecticut native, writes poetry and fiction. She earned a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Syracuse University and an M.A. in English from Trinity College. Thereafter, she worked in the corporate world as a manager of customer documentaton and made friends across the globe during many working trips to Japan. Lois Mathieu's poems have been issued by journals such as Calyx, Connecticut River Review, Connecticut Poets at Work, Embers, and Portland Review. They have also appeared in anthologies: the Texas Tech University Press anthology, Blood to Remember, American Poets on the Holocaust; and the Northwoods Press anthology, Sweet as Hautboys, Green as Prairies. Her poem "Counting Sheep by Night" won the Joseph E. Brodine Award presented by The Connecticut Poetry Society. Lois has written poetry reviews for the journal Gargoyle; and she is the author of three novels: Debut, Song for My Birth Mother; The Next to Last Drink (named to Kirkus Review's Best of 2012 list); and Women Under Siege. Lois is married to writer William L. Newell, Professor Emeritus at Eastern Connecticut State University. They live in Bloomfield, CT, and have two children as well as four grandchildren. Read More Read Less