Bio
Lois Elaine Heckman grew up in Los Angeles, receiving a degree in Italian from UCLA. She has lived for many years as an expat in Milan, Italy, becoming a volunteer nurse and first aid instructor for the Italian Red Cross. Her works appear in several publications, including Boston Literary Magazine, The Fib Review, Victorian Violet Press, Lucid rhythms, Status Hat, Tilt-a-Whirl and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She is the proud winner of the 2010 New England Shakespeare Festival Rubber Ducky Sonnet Contest.