Janet Leahy lives in New Berlin, Wisconsin, where she serves on the board of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her poems have been published in a variety of print and on-line journals, including The Wisconsin Poets' Calendar. She is the author of The Storm, a collection of poems about the Iraq War, and a new book of poems, Not My Mother's Classroom, will be available in April. The poems in her new collection are drawn from her experiences as a teacher in Milwaukee public schools. Janet enjoys gardening, though the deer assume she has planted her garden for them. Her sweet pea vine comes from ancestral roots.