Jenny Isaacs graduated long ago from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in poetry.  She ended up marrying the first person she spoke to there. While raising three daughters she founded & directed several nonprofits, including a Montessori school and an immigrant rights organization. Now retired, she lives with her husband on a creek off the Chesapeake Bay, just down the street from her parents. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Painted Bride Quarterly, Mad Poets’ Review, and US 1 Worksheets, and online in Pedestal and Up the Staircase Quarterly.