Roberta Kanefsky earned her B.A. in English from Cal State Hayward. After graduation she traveled in Europe and the Middle East. Later she worked in the film industry as a script supervisor. She received her teaching credentials from Cal State Northridge and taught Native American children in New Mexico. In recent years she has traveled in Alaska, China,Tahiti, and other islands in the South Pacific, as well as on the Eastern Seaboard of this country. She has served as a substitute teacher in elementary, junior high, and high schools in the Bay Area. She has worked on her poetry with the Monday-Monday poetry group in San Mateo, California for the last seven years. Her pleasures include attending the San Francisco Symphony and Ballet, concerts by KDFC, Barbershop Men's Choruses, and fireworks at the shoreline. She also enjoys international folk dancing, a good movie and a good belly laugh. She can be reached at golovelyrose@comcast.net.