Aleah Sato is a marketing manager and co-owner of Ricksticks Inc, a visual communications firm in Toronto. She is the author of the recently released book Badlands and the forthcoming Stillborn Wilderness (Pooka Press 2007). Her work has appeared in Nthposition, Adirondack Review, juked, Just West of Athens, Blue Fifth Review, and Eclectica. She can be reached at www.aleahsato.com.

In answer to our question of why she writes, Aleah responded: “I’m motivated by universal themes: loss, love, commitment, regret, rage, memory, nostalgia, etc., and how people respond to and gravitate towards these themes. Poetry has always appealed to me in that it is so visceral; it tells an image-filled, meaningful story without relying on all the word ‘clutter.’”

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