Jacqueline Marcus is the author of two books of poetry: Close to the Shore and Summer Rains. Her poems have appeared in Brooklyn Review, College English, Hayden’s Ferry Review, North American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Passages North, Poet Lore, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, Tampa Review, The Antioch Review, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, The Mid-American Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and many others. She taught philosophy for twenty years at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California. Richard Robbins and Jacqueline Marcus lived together for 48 years, lovingly, with their dogs and horses, on the central coast of California.