Helen Losse is a poet and free lance writer with recent poetry publications in Black Bear Review, Rearview Quarterly, Tacenda, ShoeBox Diaries, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Blink, Domicile, The Bohemian Rag and a micro-chapbook, Absolution, in the POEMS-FOR-ALL Series from 24th Street Irregular Press. Her chapbook, Gathering the Broken Pieces is available through FootHills Publishing. In her poetry, she combines her interest in creative writing with African American history in an effort to promote equality, justice, and a quest for peace. She is also beginning to convert her thesis, "Making All Thing New: The Redemptive Value of Unmerited Suffering in the Life and Works of Martin Luther King, Jr." (MALS, Wake Forest University, 2000), into a book.