Alan Bern, a retired Children’s Librarian, is a poet, storywriter, and photographer with three books of poetry: No no the saddest and Waterwalking in Berkeley from Fithian Press; greater distance published by his own press, Lines & Faces, a fine press specializing in illustrated poetry broadsides, collaborating with the artist Robert Woods, (linesandfaces.com). Alan has won prizes for his poems, stories, and photos and has been published in a variety of online and print publications.