Walden S. Morton is a writer and teacher whose roots go deep in New Hampshire and Maine, where she spent most of her life teaching literature and humanities in both high school and college while raising three daughters. For a decade, she led writing workshops in poetry and fiction at the University of Southern Maine’s OLLI Institute. For twenty-three years, she has run the Antlers Writing Workshop in Wonalancet, New Hampshire, and taught at the Waynflete School in Portland, Maine. She has published five anthologies of poetry and many short stories. She was a finalist in the 2017 Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Literary Awards.