DAWN LEAS's chapbook, I Know When to Keep Quiet, was released in 2010. She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. Her work has appeared in Literary Mama, Willows Wept Review, Interstice, Poetry in Transit, goldwakepress.org, and elsewhere. In past lives she was a copywriter, freelancer, admissions director and middle-school English teacher. Currently, she is the associate director of the Wilkes Uni-versity M.A./M.F.A. Creative Writing programs. www.dawnleas.com. Wilkes University, Writing Programs, Middle School English, Copywriter, Past Life, Creative Writing, Dawn, Families, Poetry