Professor Jean Preston earned her B.A. from Carthage College in English, with minors in Classics and Women's/Gender Studies, and holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast Writing Program. Her work has been published in Pleiades, Verse Wisconsin, The Solitary Plover, Centrique, and The Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering. She has worked as a presenter, instructor, and tutor for various academic and community organizations including the Kenosha Literacy Council and the Racine Odyssey Project, has facilitated several seminars and workshops on writing poetry, and performs her poetry with Women of an Uncertain Age.