About the Author: Ellen Jaffe is a working writer. She has been teaching writing workshops at conferences, in schools, libraries and community centres since 1968. She completed her MA in Education in New York City and her Certificate in Psychotherapy in London, England. In her private practice, she offers creative writing programs for adults and children to help them express their feelings and emotions through stories and poetry. Ms. Jaffe is a widely published poet in Canada, the US and the UK, and the winner of the 2000 Orion Prize for Poetry.

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Ellen S. Jaffe views the world with a woman's eye, often employing images based in the everyday details of domesticity. The reader is led into kitchens, busy with pots of soup, and bread "rising in the dark." Like flowers planted to remember those who have gone before, the poems are embedded in nature and earth, steeped in the importance of family. This book tracks a life - its losses, discoveries and joys, "taking us deep and sure / away from shore / to all the places where we need to go." - Heidi Greco