Florence Grende holds an MFA from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. Her stories and poems have appeared in Babel Fruit, Poetica, The Sun, The Berkshire Review, The Women’s Times, HotMetalBridge.org, in the anthology Robot Hearts, and, upcoming March of 2014, in the anthology The Widow’s Handbook. Heidelberg: A Beautiful Place 1946-1951 is an excerpt from her memoir, Out of Silence, currently seeking a publisher.