Sara Toruño – Conley

lives in San Francisco. She is the Poetry Review Editor for Boxcar Poetry Review, and her poetry has appeared in Ginosko, Temenos, Monday Night, Artistic Rights, and Perigee. Her poem “Erzebet Bathory’s Hazel Tree” was a CommonLine Journal honorable mention in 2007 and her poem “St. Stephen’s Church” was a CommonLine Journal noteworthy selection in 2008. She has an M.F.A. in creative writing and is an adjunct English Instructor at San Jose City College.