Margo Taft Stever is the author of the chapbook The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag, 2012) and coauthor of the book Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia (Zhejiang University Press, 2012). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, New England Review, West Branch, The Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her book of poetry Frozen Spring (Mid-List Press, 2002) was the winner of the First Series Award for Poetry by Mid-List Press. Her chapbook, Reading the Night Sky (Riverstone, 1996) won the Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. Stever is the founder of The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and the founding editor of Slapering Hol Press.  

Photo by Donald W. Stever