Jackie Simmons is Emily Dickinson’s 7th cousin 5 times removed, but that fact has not helped her writing one iota. Her poems have appeared in RealPoetik, Purple Fiction, Half Drunk Muse, Amaze: A Cinquain Journal, A First Tuesday in Wilton Anthology, Poetz, Short Fast and Deadly, Pagan Friends, Radius: Poetry from the Center to the Edge, and the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology. She’s been having on-stage anxiety attacks in New York City and Connecticut since 1995.