Leanne Nelson, a credentialed Adult Education Instructor, is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists affiliate and Board Member. Her award winning work is included in American Poetry Anthologies, Diablo Valley College’s Agape, Albert Flynn DeSilver’s Writing Into Truth’s Insight is 2020 and Kids Magazine. She’s read three times on KWMR West Marin’s Heart’s Desire, and been featured in the Contra Costa Times Op Ed page several times. In a past life as a City Planner, in addition to staff reports, she wrote legislation and numerous articles primarily on the subject of recycling, green and hazardous waste for City Newsletters. https://leannenelson.wordpress.com/