Born in New York City, Irene Willis lives and writes in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Florida Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, Literary Review, Roanoke Review, New York Quarterly, Snake Nation Review, U.S.1, Yankee, and other journals and anthologies as well as in her first collection, They Tell Me You Danced, published by the University Press of Florida. Since her retirement she leads poetry workshops and tutorials. Married for twenty-seven years, with two adult children, she and her second husband, Daves Rossell, live in a pleasant country house with an English Springer Spaniel named Alice.
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