Barbara Leff discovered poetry at the age of 12 and has explored the genre ever since. A co-founder of the Caselli Street Poets, she has experimented with various forms, including the braided narrative and created a form she calls the crazy quilt, which is an unbraiding of the narratives allowing each stanza to inform the one before and resolving in the final stanza. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Fourteen Hills, Faultline, and Ibbetson Press. She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Arlene Singer and Baxter, their four-pawed, furry one. Her books include Undertow, And God Said . . . a Brief History of Creation and Luck with visual artist, David Maxim.