Ilona Popper's first book of poems, BREAK, is newly released from The Bunny and the Crocodile Press. She was educated at Georgetown University and the University of Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Weavings 2000: the Maryland Millennial Anthology, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Maryland Poetry Review, The Antietam Review, Fodderwing, and Earth's Daughters. She has performed her poetry at Excavations: New Works in Language and Movement, on Montgomery Cable Television, on WPFW'S radio show "The Poet and the Poem," at schools, and at bookstores. She lives in West Virginia with her husband and dog.