CANDICE REFFE was born in Paterson, N.J., in 1954. She received her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1985 after a ten-year hiatus from literature, which included a post in Kenya with the Peace Corps. Twice chosen as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, she has been awarded a Massachusett's Artists Foundation Fellowship and a Grolier Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in the anthology New Voices 1984-88, and in numerous literary magazines, including Agni, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, and The Threepenny Review. For many years she made her living as a poet in the schools, and is now part-owner of a seasonal clothing shop. She is circulating her manuscript of poems, Tattoo, and is now working on a novel.