Janet Sylvester's first book, That Mulberry Wine, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1985, when she was writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College. Poems from her second book, Regardless, have appeared in fourteen journals, among them Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Boulevard, and Triquarterly. Ms. Sylvester holds a PhD. from the University of Utah, and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Old Dominion University. [extracted from 1992 brochure]