Paula Brancato was one of the first women executives on Wall Street, a music producer in Hollywood and a strategic planner for The World Bank. Her literary awards include The Booth Poetry Prize, Danahy Fiction Prize and Brushfire Poet Award. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Mudfish, Bomb Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ambit Magazine, Georgetown Review, Litchfield Review, and Southern California Anthology. Read her poem “Stoop” from the March 2013 issue of Gemini. Paula has taught poetry and screenwriting at University of Southern California and Stony Brook Southampton. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School, Hunter College and LA Film School and lives in New Jersey where she spends an awful lot of time with Myrtle her dog!