Adele Kearney—born Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Graduated George Washington University 1953, attended Stanford University 1954-5. Worked as technical writer for IBM for many years. Has published poems in Sacramento News and Review, The Rattlesnake Review. Plexus, Poetry Now, and Across the Generations. Is working on a historical novel, Bit Parts, and a volume of sonnets about flowers, California Flowering.