Lorene Vorbach Bossong, a life long poet, recently retired from a long career in education as an English teacher and chairperson as well as a student literary art magazine advisor. Her work has been published in a variety of anthologies including, Poets to Come, Corona Global Lockdown, Diversity(There's a Beauty in that too), Oberon and Nassau County Poet Laureate Review. Although poetry is her creative foundation, she recently tackled writing a novella. She lives on Long Island, NY with her husband, children, and grandchildren.