Ellaraine Lockie is a well-published and awarded poet who has received eight nominations for Pushcart Prizes. She has four published chapbooks and will be reading from her recently-released Finishing Lines from Snark Publishing. She also teaches school and community poetry workshops and is a frequent judge of contests, having just judged the 2005 one for the "Taproot Literary Review." Ellaraine also writes magazine articles, essays, children's stories and nonfiction books.