A poet, fiction writer, linguist, and arts lawyer, Maureen Holm is a principal in the international arts consortium, p h i l o p h o n e m a ú (producers of Lyric Recovery Festivalú at Carnegie Hall), and Senior Essayist for Big City Litú (nycBigCityLit.com). Poetry/essay credits include: Adirondack Review (French), The Drunken Boat (French, English), Niederngasse (German), Southern California Anthology, poetry bay, Paris/Atlantic, Rattapallax, Lagniappe (SUNY Buffalo), The Electric Acorn (Dublin). Recent awards: “Writers Who Made a Difference” (The Writer Magazine); Winner 2002, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review award (“Late to My Life”); Honorable Mention, 2001 Ann Stanford competition (judge: Robert Mezey). She lives in Manhattan.