Author of the chapbook “After Dinner Mints” (Foothills Publishing, 2005), Maria Lupinacci is a Pushcart Prize Nominee whose work has been featured in The MAG: The Muse Apprentice Guild, Perigee: Publication for the Arts, Wicked Alice Poetry Journal, U.S. 1 Publications, The NOX Anthology-Dark Poets Against Abuse (Gromagon Press,2006), Poetry Super Highway, Zygote In My Coffee.com, Tryst3, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Dark Moon Rising, Erosha, Lily, VLQ-Verse Libre Quarterly, Morbid Outlook, Poetry Life and Times, Point of Life.com and various other electronic and in print publications. Her manuscript "Premonitions and Potions" was chosen as Runner-Up for The Annual Bordighera Poetry Prize, 2005