BARBARA HENNING is the author of two novels (Black Lace and You, Me and the Insects ) as well as several books of poetry, including Detective Sentences,  Love Makes Thinking Dark, Smoking in the Twilight Bar, In Between and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Her most recent book is a collection of sonnets, My Autobiography (United Artists, 2007).  Thirty Miles to Rosebud, prose and poetry, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil. In the 90's Henning was the editor of Long News in the Short Century. She was born in Detroit, relocated to New York City in the early eighties and has recently moved to Tucson.  Presently she is teaching workshops for the University of Arizona's Poetry Center as well as for Naropa's MFA program. She is Professor Emerita from Long Island University in Brooklyn.