Madeleine Fuchs Holzer is the director of the Arts in Education program at the New York State Council on the Arts. She holds both a Doctorate in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Masters degree in Creative Writing from New York University. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Education Week, Footwork: Paterson Literary Review and Pearl, among others. In addition, she has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony where she completed a full-length poetry manuscript. She has been Director of the Metropolitan Studies Program at New York University, Coordinator of the New York Field Study Program for the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, and has taught English at Fox Lane High School in Bedford, New York. She has been a poet in residence working with elementary, middle and high school students in a variety of settings, and was Senior Editor for English/Language Arts at Sunburst Communications where she developed the CD-ROMs Romeo and Juliet: Center Stage and In My Own Voice: Multicultural Poets on Identity