Amy J. Barry of Stony Creek, Connecticut, has enjoyed a 35-year career as an editor, award-winning print journalist, opinion columnist, and arts and theater critic. She is also a certified expressive art and writing workshop leader, Hospice-trained bereavement support group facilitator, and author of A Child's Grief Journey, a picture book to help children cope with the death of a parent, endorsed by Education World. In more recent years, Amy has enthusiastically returned to her first love—writing poetry. She has completed two series of connected poems focused on her personal journeys through both the pandemic and her parent’s final years. To date, in addition to Unlimited Literature, her poems have been published by Poets Choice, and Other Worldly Women Press. More about Amy on her website: www.aimwrite-ct.net