Lynne Viti was born and raised in Baltimore and now lives in Massachusetts. She has published four poetry collections, including the recently released _The Walk to Cefalù_, from the Cornerstone Press /Portage Press Poetry Series. Her poetry, nonfiction and fiction have appeared in over 150 journals and anthologies, including The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television, Welcome to the Neighborhood and A Lovely Place, a Fighting Place, A Charmer: Baltimore Anthology. A lecturer emerita at Wellesley College, she leads poetry workshops and teaches in community programs in the Boston area.Her poems have received recognition in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, the Joe Gouveia Poetry Contest, and the Fish Publishing Poetry Contest.