Betsy Snider is a retired attorney who lives on a lake in rural New Hampshire with her cat Sophie and the ghosts of her many dogs. When she is not swimming or hiking, she writes poetry and has volunteered as a CASA Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children. She was first published in the ground-breaking anthology, Lesbian Nuns Breaking Silence Naiad Press, 1985. Her poetry has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently in River of Earth and Sky Poems for the 21st Century Blue Light Press, 2015 You Must Remember This Poetry Society of New Hampshire, 2015 Poet's Showcase Hobblebush Press, 2015 and Love Over 60 an anthology of women poets Mayapple Press, 2010. She is also a winner of the 2015 Blue Light Book Award for her new book of poems, Hope is a Muscle. ENDORSEMENTS In this unusual collection of poems, Betsy Snider takes us back to her youthful years as a nun, when she tried to escape from a troubled childhood and then struggled to surrender inst