V. P. Crowe has been on the Dallas poetry scene since 1993, reading and working first with Joe Stanco's Poets' Roundtable, then the Greater Dallas Community of Writers and the Dallas Poets Community. V. P. 's work has appeared in Electron Magazine, Red River Review, and assorted collections and anthologies. She lives in the suburbs with a mad scientist, the future Emperor of the World, and a houseful of fur. When she isn't working at her day job, she says, she reads and Googles obsessively, fusses at her kids, talks to animals, cries at movies, hikes when she can, writes when she must, and lives for those manifestations of nature and the human heart that leave – just for a moment – pure joy and hope in place of remembering how to breathe.