Ernie Wormwood (November 28, 1946 – April 6, 2012) was born in Washington, DC and education at George Washington University (where she earned a JD degree) and the University of Maryland (where she earned an MA in Public Policy). Wormwood worked for 25 years for the Montgomery County government and taught at several area colleges. Her poems appeared in the journals Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Antietam Review, Rhino Magazine, and Cafe Review, and the anthologies Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami, Poem, Revised, Poetic Voices Without Borders, and Primal Sanities: A Tribute to Walt Whitman.