Estella Lauter began writing poetry in the 70s as a means of keeping the parts of her life as a mother, wife, professor, commuter, traveler, writer, sailor and woodland hermit together. In retirement on the Niagara Escarpment with her husband, she has turned to poetry to make sense of the world. She recently published two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press and tied for first place in the 2009 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Contest of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. With grandchildren in Iowa and California, she still spends a lot of time on the road.