Judith Robbins is the mother of four and a graduate of Bates College and Harvard Divinity School. She grew up on Milton Street in the North End of Worcester, MA, in an area called Poets Hill, the neighborhood she celebrates in this, her first collection. She moved to Maine in 1967 with her husband Jon, where she still lives and writes. Her first poem was published when she was seven, and she has since been widely published in magazines and journals, including The Worcester Review, Puckerbrush Review, and The American Scholar.