Elizabeth Greene was born in New York and came to Toronto to do an M.A. in Medieval Studies and a Ph.D. in English Literature. She began teaching in 1969 at Queen’s University in Kingston. She currently teaches the course Contemporary Canadian Women Writers. Besides editing and contributing to We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman, she has co-edited two other anthologies of previously unpublished fiction and poetry and is editing a collection of poetry by Kingston poets for Artful Codger Press.