Rhonda Batchelor is the author of two collections of poetry, "Bearings" and "Interpreting Silence". She has been anthologized in "Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of 1994", "Because You Loved Being a Stranger: 55 Poems Celebrate Patrick Lane", and "New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25". She lives in Victoria, BC, and is the manager of The Hawthorne Bookshop. She is also the publisher of Reference West chapbooks.