Fatima Lim-Wilson has written two award winning collections of poetry, Wandering Roots/From the Hothouse and Crossing the Snow Bridge. She has won the Pushcart Prize, the Philippine National Book Award, the Colorado Book Authors Award, and the Ohio State University Press Award. She obtained her PhD from the University of Denver, her MA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her BA from Ateneo de Manila University. For two years, she worked as the Confidential Assistant to the Spokesperson of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino. Currently based in Seattle, WA, she teaches online courses at American Military University, DeVry University, and St. Leo University. In 2008, she received an AMU grant which funded her month-long research in the Philippines. [Read]