Returning to Dust

Carol Poster is the author of three chapbooks of poetry and three books of commercial nonfiction about outdoor recreation. Her poetry translations include Selected Poems of Jacques Prévert (White Pine Press), Platus' Stichus (Johns Hopkins University Press Complete Roman Drama series), and Aristophanes' Clouds (University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Greek Drama). She has also published nonfiction widely in magazines and web venues on topics as diverse as skiing, backpacking, computer technology, video games, real estate, and green lifestyles. Poster has been writing for publication since she was a teenager. After graduating from Hollins University, she worked for a decade in the computer industry, first for Fortune 500 companies and then as a founder of her own consulting and software development firm, while continuing to write. Next, she returned to school for an MFA in Creative Writing (Eastern Washington University) and PhD in Rhetoric (University of Missouri), publishing substantial amounts of scholarship on ancient rhetoric and rhetoric of religion and teaching at University of Northern Iowa, Montana State University, Florida State University, and York University (Canada) before returning to freelance writing and photography. Her poems, translations, and works of short fiction have appeared in periodicals including Avocet, The Ball State University Forum, Bitterroot, Blue Unicorn, The Formalist, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hyperion, Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, Longhouse, The MacGuffin, The Maine Review, Outerbridge, Ploughshares, and Poetry East.