Tracey Gratch grew up in upstate NY and now lives in Quincy, MA with her husband and their four children. Her poems have appeared in various and sundry print and online publications including, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Flea,Mezzo Cammin, The New Verse News, and Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She has enjoyed skiing in the mountains of New Hampshire with family and friends this past winter/spring. She is looking forward to warm weather, long bike rides and relaxing at the beach.