LAURA BAYLESS The author of three collections of poetry, The Edge of the Nest, White Streams and Touchstones, and Persistent Dreams, her poems have appeared in many local and national publications, and anthologies, including Dancing on the Brink of the World, Selected Poems of Point Lobos, Porter Gulch Review, The Homestead Review, and Avocet. She has participated in seven Women’s Voices readings at the Carl Cherry Center.