Denise S. Robbins is a Pushcart-nominated author of fiction and poetry and has had work published in the Barcelona Review, Chicago Review of Books, The Creative Independent, Gulf Coast Journal, and more. She has been facilitating community writing workshops in the Washington, DC area for eight years. She co-authored the book Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century and is a graduate of the Jenny McKean Moore writing workshop. Her website is www.denisesrobbins.com.