Janet Lembke

Past: Janet Lembke was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in the dark days of The Depression. She graduated with a degree in Classics from Middlebury College, sank happily into housewifery, and bore two sons and two daughters.

Present: She writes, gardens, and keeps cats in Staunton, Virginia. Her eighteen books include poetry, literary translations, and collections of essays on the natural world. In 2005, she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Virgil’s Georgics, a poem on farming. She is a certified Virginia Master Gardener.

Future: A memoir called I Married an Arsonist.