Janet Parlato is a writer and painter who lives in Connecticut with her wildly creative husband, author/artist/actor/professor Steve Parlato, and their delightfully funky children, Ben and Jillian. Her work can found in Brides Magazine, Common Ground Review, Freshwater Poetry Journal, Wingless Dreamer, Silas Bronson Playreaders Theater, Paper Nautilus, Cathexis Northwest Press, Prometheus Dreaming, Guilford Poets Guild, Parhelion Literary Magazine, Kaleidoscope WoJo, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, The Nature of Woodbury, Downcity Ink, an upcoming issue of the Cape Cod Review, and elsewhere.