Phoebe MacAdams was born and raised in New York City, but has lived in California most of her adult life, first in the poetry community of Bolinas in Northern California, and then in Ojai in Ventura County. She has been active in the Los Angeles literary community since her move here in 1986. She is a founding member of Cahuenga Press. (www.cahuengapress.com) She was also a founding member of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and, for two years, ran the Gasoline Alley reading series on Melrose Avenue with poet Bill Mohr. She taught English and Creative Writing at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles until her retirement in 2011. She lives in Pasadena with her husband, Ron Ozuna.Phoebe MacAdams has published six books of poetry: Sunday, Ever, Ordinary Snake Dance, Livelihood, Strange Grace, and Touching Stone. Her last four books were published by Cahuenga Press. The goal of its poet-members - James Cushing, Phoebe MacAdams Ozuna, Harry Northup and Holly Prado Northup - is to create fine books of poetry by poets whose work is admired and respected by the press members and to make poetry actual in the world in ways which honor both individual creative freedom and cooperative support. According to Amelie Frank, “What (Phoebe) reports back to us from her daily pilgrimages should give us hope: truth and beauty are at hand everywhere we look and always just as we need it most.”