Jules Nyquist is the founder of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, NM. Her recent award-winning books are Atomic Paradise, Homesick, then, and The Sestina Playbook. She took her MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Her poems have appeared in Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology, IKON Magazine, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and elsewhere.  She taught poetry for the NM State Poetry Society and UNM Writer’s Conference and continues teaching at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse.