Shaune Bornholdt is a poet who was raised in the country, lives in New York City, and hangs out in the Catskills at a place that's called The Land. After her retirement as a psychologist who worked primarily with children, she completed the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine. Her work has been published in American Arts Quarterly, Hanging Loose, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Measure, The Raintown Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and in online journals. In the fall, in addition to writing poetry, she plans to return to individual work with children with learning problems.