Stacy Johnson Tuthill (March 10, 1925-October 19, 2010) founded SCOP Publications in 1976. She is the author of five books of poems, most recently Painting in the Dark (McNaughton & Gunn, 2007), from which this poem is taken. She edited the anthologies Rye Bread: Women Poets Rising (SCOP Publications, 1977) and Second Rising ( SCOP,1979), and the collection Laurels: Eight Women Poets (SCOP, 1998), which documented all the women who had served up to that time as US Poets Laureate.