LAURIE KUNTZ worked in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines for more than a decade. Currently a lecturer in English at the University of Maryland's Asian campus in Misawa, Japan, she is the author of two English-as-a-Second-Language books and editor of the University of Maryland's Asian Division literary magazine, "Blue Muse." Her poetry has been published in "Bloomsbury Review, ""Louisville"" Review, Charlotte Poetry Review, ""Roanoke"" Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Virginia Review," and "Contemporary Review," among others.