Janet Leahy’s poems have been published in a variety of print and online journals and have been featured in exhibits at The Clearing, a folk school in Door County, Wisconsin. She has participated in ekphrastic poetry exhibitions in Oconomowoc, Stevens Point, and Minocqua, and is the author of two collections of poetry, The Storm: Poems of War, Iraq, and Not My Mother’s Classroom, the latter based on her many years of teaching in Milwaukee public schools. Janet enjoyed being part of the YDP poetry reading at Chicago's After-Words Book Store last year. When she’s not busy with poetry, she enjoys sharing her garden with deer which are especially fond of the large blooms on her Annabelle hydrangea.