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Name:  Azure

Location:  Maryland, USA

Age:  51

Pets:  1 Siamese cat, 2 house rabbits

Favorite Poet:  Homer

Favorite Poem:  Iliad

How long have you been writing poetry?: I have been writing poetry since I was a teenager. I only began to write poetry seriously the last ten years.

What/Who inspires you to write?: Nature inspires me the most, with the beauty that surrounds us there are multiple subjects to write about every day.

Favorite Quote or Motto: I think, therefore I write.

Writing Awards, Publications, and other Achievements: Publications: “The Sleepy Lagoon Trial: Synonym for Injustice and Racial Hatred,” Law in the Western United States, ed. Gordon Bakken, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

“Chemehuevi Migration.” Ed. Gordon Bakken and Alexandra Kindell. Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration into the American West. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.

Future Publications: “Mayapán,” “Palenque,” “Copán,” “Chichén Itzá.” “Uxmal.” “Tikal.” Ed. Jan Rogozinski. The City and Urban Life. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2006.

“The Indian Claims Commission.” “Lonewolf v Hitchcock,” “Tee-Hit-Ton.” Encyclopedia of American Indian History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Inc., 2007.

“Tee-Hit-Ton.” Ed. Donald L. Fixico. Treaties with American Indians. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, Inc., 2007.

Random Elements by Susan Sánchez-Barnett ISBN 978-1-932447-78-1 $10.00 + shipping

Additional Poet Information: I am a Native American historian, hence all the historical writing above. But I am here for the other form of writing that I love, poetry.