Catharine Clark-Sayles is a geriatrician practicing north of San Francisco. She travelled across the United States extensively with a military family while she was young, then became an Army doctor. When she turned forty she discovered that she had missed her twenties the first time around and reconnected with poetry to find them. She has published two books of poetry with Tebot Bach Press: One Breath in 2008 is poetry drawn from medical training and practice. Lifeboat was published in 2012. Recent work has appeared in Spillway, Locuspoint.org, The Squaw Valley Review, Persimmon Tree, The Healing Art of Writing, vols.1 and 2., Neat, The Healing Muse, many of annual The Marin Poetry Center Anthology and The Poetry Farmer's Almanacs.