Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is a writing teacher living in Holland, NY. After earning her MA at Teachers College, Columbia University, Amy directed Summer Writing Workshops for Girls for many years and has since has taught hundreds of teachers and children about writing style and process. Amy writes commentaries for WBFO, Buffalo’s local NPR station, writes a quarterly column for Edible Buffalo Magazine, and her poems for children have appeared in several anthologies. Her first poetry book, Forest Has a Song, will be published by Clarion. You can read Amy’s daily children’s poem as well as her WBFO stories at her blog – www.poemfarm.blogspot.com.