Hilda Weiss has poetry published in Spillway, Panoply, Cultural Weekly, The Comstock Review, Salamander, Schuylkill Journal, and Rattle, among others. She also has a chapbook, Optimism About Trees (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and has poems in anthologies such as Wide Awake and Coiled Serpent. She is co-founder and curator for www.Poetry.LA, a website featuring videos of poets and poetry venues in Southern California. A fourth generation Californian, she lives, writes, and grows her own vegetables in a garden full of native California plants in Santa Monica.