Grace Marie Grafton's new book, LENS, published by Unsolicited Press, is
available August 1st, 2019. It features poems inspired by artists of California and is rich in California history and ecology. She is the author of six previous collections of poetry:

Zero won the 2000 Poetic Matrix Chapbook contest. Visiting Sisters is a collection inspired by the artwork of contemporary women. Other Clues consists of experimental prose poems. A chapbook, Chrysanthemum Oratorio, plays with language and concept. Whimsy, Reticence & Laud, also from Poetic Matrix, explores the sonnet form. Jester was published by Hip Pocket Press.

Ms. Grafton taught for many years in the California Poets In The Schools
program, for which she was awarded twelve California Arts Council grants. She
was named Teacher of the Year by the River Of Words annual student poetry
contest co-sponsored by Robert Hass, United States Poet Laureate.

Born and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley of a Finnish American family,
she now lives in Oakland with her husband and their extended family.