Marianne Betterly is an award-winning poet who writes about nature, love, loss, the streets of San Francisco, fairy tales and the synchronicity of events. A believer in auguries, old and new, she loves to discover hidden meaning floating on a double latte, in a swarm of bees or in a murder of crows. ~~~ Her poetry has been published widely in books and journals including River of Earth and Sky, The Widows' Handbook, Between the Fault Lines, Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down, The Legendary, New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan, Hot Flashes, Southern Sampler, Green Silk Journal, San Diego Poetry Annual 2014-15, Specter Magazine, San Diego Poetry Annual 2014-2015 and the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. Marianne lives in a house in Kensington once owned by the great-nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson.