Sheila J. Packa is a poet and social worker living in Duluth, Minn. She received a Loft McKnight Award for Poetry in 1986 and a Loft Mentor Award in 1992. Her work has appeared in Sing Heavenly Muse, Loonfeather, and Hurricane Alice, and is forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom, Rag Mag, and North Coast Review.