Cindy Stewart-Rinier is in her final year of an MFA program in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. She has published poems in such journals as Calyx and The Smoking Poet and she has two poems pending publication in the Crab Creek Review. She has been a first place winner in the Portland Pen Women Annual Poetry Contest and her poem, “Pre-K Pollock” has recently been nominated by the editors of the Crab Creek Review for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Portland, Oregon.