Dede Wilson is a native of Louisiana who now lives in Charlotte, NC. She is a former journalist with the Dallas Times-Herald and has published her poems in scores of literary journals, including Spoon River Poetry Review, Iowa Woman, Asheville Poetry Review, Poem, The New Orleans Review and Painted Bride Quarterly. She edited a memoir, Fourth Child, Second Daughter, that appeared in 1998 and has published two chapbooks of her work: Glass (Scots Plaid Press, 1998) and Sea of Small Fears (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2001).