Naomi Bindman has published in Mothering, So to Speak, Friends Journal, Consilience, Import Sky, Honeyguide, Synchroniciti, First Literary Review—East, South Florida Poetry Journal, Lightwood Magazine, El Portal Literary Journal and on Her Own Words podcast. She was a finalist in the DiBiase Poetry Contest, won Dogwood Journal’s Creative Nonfiction Award, has received funds from the Vermont Arts Council and Vermont Humanities Council, and is on the faculty of the Vermont State Colleges. Naomi’s memoir, You’re the Words I Sing, currently on submission, tells the story of her journey back to life performing the songs of her daughter, Ellen, whose life ended in a car crash at the age of seventeen.