About the Author Joanie McLean is an ecologist and poet who lives in Silk Hope, North Carolina. She holds degrees in Botany from UNC - Chapel Hill and in Wetland Ecology from Duke University. She is the winner of the New Millennium Writings Prize for Poetry, and a three time finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in and won awards from many journals and magazines. Like Wind Into Air is her 4th poetry collection and winner of an Honorable Mention for the NC Poetry Society's Lena Shull Book Award. (www.joaniemclean.com)