About the Author: Carol Lem

Carol Lem teaches creative writing, composition, and literature at East Los Angeles College and has published poems in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Bachy, Blue Mesa Review, CQ (California Quarterly), Chiron Review, Chrysalis, Contact II, disorient, Hawaii Pacific Review, Harbinger (The Los Angeles Festival), The Illinois Review, Inside English, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Lucid Stone, Many Mountains Moving, Momentum, Poetry L/A, Pegasus, Poetry Magazine, Rara Avis, Rattle, The Seattle Review, Visions International, Yankee Magazine, Yet Another Small Magazine, and others.

Books include Searchings, Grassroots, Don't Ask Why, The Hermit, The Hermit's Journey: Tarot Poems for Meditation, Moe, Remembrance, and Shadow of the Plum.

Jim Elledge, editor of The Illinois Review, nominated her poem, "Didn't They Tell You Stories?" for the Pushcart Prize. Her work is also represented in What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry, edited by Christopher Buckley and Christopher Merrill, and Grand Passion, Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, edited by Suzanne Lummis and Charles H. Webb.