Robin Greene serves as Professor of English and Writing, and Director of the Writing Center at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC. She is a past recipient of a cosponsored National Endowment of Arts and North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in Writing, the Al Cleveland Award for Teaching, the Best Professor of the Year Award, and the McLean Endowed Chair of English In addition to her university teaching, Greene teaches writing at an annual writing, yoga, and meditation retreat for women in Oaxaca, Mexico. Click on  www.oaxacaculture.com  to learn more about this retreat Greene has published four books —two volumes of poetry ( Memories of Light  and  Lateral Drift ), a novel ( Augustus: Narrative of a Slave Woman ) and two editions of  Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories . She regularly publishes poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction in literary journals and has about ninety publications to her credit The Shelf Life ...