Margo Berdeshevsky, New York City born, writes now in Paris. Her newest book is Kneel Said the Night (Sundress Publications), with It Is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat (Salmon Poetry) forthcoming. She is also the author of Before The Drought (Glass Lyre Press), Between Soul & Stone and But a Passage in Wilderness (Sheep Meadow Press), and Beautiful Soon Enough (FC2). She is the recipient of the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award and the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America.