Julene Waffle is a teacher in a rural NYS public school, a business owner, a wife, a mother of three boys, and writer. She has degrees from Hartwick College and Binghamton University. Her work has appeared in The Daily Star, The English Journal, The English Record, River, Blood, and Corn: Literary Journal, A Community of Voices, and the anthologies Planet in Crisis, Seeing Things, and a a chapbook entitled So I Will Remember. She finds inspiration in nature and her family which includes her dogs.