Ellen Beth Siegel is a clinical psychologist and a former lawyer. She began studying poetry with Ottone M. Riccio in 1990, and has also studied at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Her poems have been published in Bellowing Ark (where she was a Featured Poet), The Christian Science Monitor, Concrete Wolf, Poetpourri, and The Warwick Anthology, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was one of the co-Editors of Do Not Give Me Things Unbroken, a 2002 anthology of poems all written from one of Mr. Riccio's assignments. Her chapbooks Remembering Endymion and The Sweet Moth Kisses Never Traded have been finalists in various chapbook contests and are currently looking for a publisher.