Janice Gould (Concow) grew up in Berkeley, California.  She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned degrees in Linguistics (BA) and English (MA), later enrolling at the University of New Mexico, where she received her Ph.D. in English.  More recently, Janice completed a Master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Arizona.  Janice has received awards for her writing from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Astraea Foundation.  Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies.  Janice’s books include Beneath My Heart (Firebrand), Earthquake Weather (University of Arizona), Alphabet (May Day), and Speak to Me Words: Essays on American Indian Poetry (University of Arizona), co-edited with Dean Rader.   A new collection of poetry, Doubters & Dreamers: Poems and Narrations, will be published with the University of Arizona in Spring 2011.  Janice is an Assistant Professor in Women’s and Ethnic Studies (WEST) at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.