Ilene Starger is a New York-born poet whose work has appeared in numerous journals and online publications, including Bayou, Georgetown Review, Folio, Oberon, Paper Street, Grasslimb, Manzanita, Tar Wolf Review, Poesia, and The Tupelo Press Poetry Project, among others. In 2008, Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Lethe, Postponed. In 2010, several of her poems were set to music and performed in concert. Her full-length collection of selected poems, Forgive Me if None of This is True, will soon be published.
(Author photo: copyright Lois Greenfield)