Diane Lefer is the author of two previous collections, The Circles I Move In and Very Much Like Desire, and the novel, Radiant Hunger. She lives in Los Angeles where she is an artistic associate of Playwrights' Arena, volunteers with the Program for Torture Victims, and serves on the animal behavior observation team of the research department at the LA Zoo. Her ongoing collaboration with exiled Colombian theatre artist Hector Aristizábal encompasses works for the stage, street theatre, and social action workshops based on the techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of the Union Institute & University.