Esther Hurwitz was a featured reader on NPR's "A Night Out in Ann Arbor" with Garrison Keillor as well as being voted *Ms. Under Appreciated* at the 2000 Rustbelt Slam. Her poems have appeared in many places including Exquisite Corpse, The Huron River Review, the Ann Arbor (W)rites anthology, and the United Nations Dialogue Among Civilizations poetry anthologies. Soft as a Beagle's Ears, her first collection of poems, was published in October 2002 (www.thewordsmithpress.com). A refugee from technical writing, Esther teaches college classes in creative, business, and fundamentals of writing at Washtenaw Community College and is a freelance writer and copy-editor.

Esther lives in southeast Michigan to be near her family, not because she likes the weather. She is her mother's favorite poet, although her father favored Shakespeare. Her biggest epiphany in 2004 was learning why the hell she needs a cat.  Esthers homepage is
http://home.earthlink.net/~legba42