Wendy Patrice Williams is a writer, educator, and poet with two chapbooks, Some New Forgetting and Bayley House Bard. She has been a member of the Red Fox Underground Poets of the Sierra Foothills for over ten years. Some of her work has appeared in Rattlesnake Review, Song of the San Joaquin Quarterly, Late Peaches: Poems by Sacramento Poets, Sacramento Voices 2013, 2014 and 2015, Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, and Common Ground Review. Wendy is a board member of the Sacramento Poetry Center and hosts a first-Monday monthly reading of word luminaries. In Chaparral is her first poetry book with a spine!.