Rand Hess. She was the literacy coach and
design specialist for Book-in-a-day and
worked as regional coordinator in Northern
and Western Maryland for Poetry Out Loud,
a national poetry recitation contest.
She is a Jin Shin Jyutsu (a Japanese healing
art) practitioner in Baltimore, MD, and is
currently working on a children's novel-inverse.
www.deannanikaido.com
Deanna Nikaido
Deanna Nikaido is a graduate from Art
Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California, with a degree in Illustration and
has authored two collection of poetry,
Voice Like Water and Vibrating with Silence
and the children’s book, Animal Ark, coauthored
with Kwame Alexander and Mary