Elisavietta Ritchie's most recent book of poems, Tiger Upstairs on Connecticut Avenue, is forthcoming from the Cherry Grove imprint, WordTech in 2013.  Her previous books include Cormorant Beyond the Compost; Real Toads; Awaiting Permission to Land; Spirit of the Walrus; Arc of the Storm; Elegy for the Other Woman; Tightening The Circle Over Eel Country; Raking The Snow; In Haste I Write You This Note; Flying Time. She edited The Dolphin's Arc: Endangered Creatures of the Sea and other volumes.  She served as president for both fiction and poetry divisions of the Washington Writers' Publishing House and continues as a fiction editor. She currently leads the workshop "Re-Write Your Life: Creative Memoir Writing," mentors, and serves as a poet-in-the-schools. Her sonnet "Camille Pissarro's Bather" recently won The Ledge Poetry Prize.