Ellen Steinbaum's third poetry collection, "Brightness Falls," will be published in September, 2013. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is included in Garrison Keillor’s anthology, “Good Poems, American Places.” She is the author of a one-person play, “CenterPiece,” which she has performed. A former literary columnist for The Boston Globe, she now writes a blog, “Reading and Writing and the Occasional Recipe,” which can be found at her web site, ellensteinbaum.com.