Marie Lecrivain is the executive editor and publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and photographer. Her prose and poetry have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including: Edgar Allen Poetry Journal, Haibun Today,The Los Angeles Review, The Poetry Salzburg Review, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Spillway, Tree Killer Ink, A New Ulster, and others.Marie's newest collection of poetry, Love Poems... Yes... REALLY... Love Poems, (copyright 2013 Sybaritic Press), is available through Amazon.com. She is also the editor of several anthologies, including the upcoming Near Kin: An Anthology of Words and Art inspired by Octavia E. Butler (© 2014 Sybaritic Press).