Shawn Aveningo is a globally published, multi-award-winning poet who founded the Verse on the Vine™ series and thePoetryBox™. She has authored five poetry books and has performed in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Sausalito, Sacramento and St. Louis. Her work has been published in over 60 anthologies, literary journals and e-zines, including Tincture Journal, Pirene's Fountain, Napalm & Novocain, Boston Poetry, Skin2Skin: Art of the Lesbian, Convergence, Poetry Now, Tule Review, and Haunted Waters Press Quarterly. Originally a Show-Me girl from Missouri, she's a Summa Cum Laude graduate from University of Maryland and a very proud mother of three who has recently made Portland Oregon her home. And she absolutely loves shoes - especially red ones! (www.RedShoePoet.com)