JACQUELINE LAPIDUS (b.1941) grew up in New York City and lived abroad for more than 20 years, first in Greece, then in France where she was active in international feminist groups.  A lifelong editor, teacher and translator currently living in Boston, she has worked on magazine staffs as well as on business and scholarly books and the 1998 and 2005 editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves as a freelance consultant.  Jacqueline is officially retired, but she is still working, editing a French-language Web site for Oxfam America and fine-tuning articles and book chapters. She holds degrees from Swarthmore College and Harvard Divinity School. For ten years she taught the writing component of a course on medical issues and information at Harvard Extension School. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies and in three previous collections: Ready to Survive, Starting Over and Ultimate Conspiracy.  Jacqueline's new book of poems, Scheherezade's Menopause (or maybe it will be called Experience Is What You Get--or All of It Real), is still seeking a publisher.