Vanessa Poster is a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writer’s Collective and The Poetry Salon. She has studied Method Writing with Jack Grapes for more than 25 years. Her work has appeared in Grief Dialogues, the Book; Stories from the Muses; and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, and more. She has been teaching creative writing since 2017 and runs a workshop called, The Write Way: Using the Written Word to Heal. She is a graduate of Stanford University. She was widowed in 2015 and her poems explore themes of grief, love, and gratitude.