Mona Lydon-Rochelle

Mona T. Lydon-Rochelle was born in Massachusetts and grew up in the coastal Northeast, the Philippines, and Washington, D.C. She is a writer, epidemiologist, and midwife and was a professor at the University of Washington and the University of College Cork, Ireland. Her poetry collections include On the Brink of the Sea, and Mourning Dove. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.