Pamela Wax, an ordained rabbi, is the author of Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022) and the forthcoming chapbook, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have received awards from Crosswinds, Paterson Literary Review, Poets’ Billow, Oberon, the Robinson Jeffers Tor House, as well as a Best of the Net nomination. She has been published in literary journals including Barrow Street, Connecticut River Review, Naugatuck River Review, Pedestal, Tupelo Quarterly, Sixfold, and Passengers Journal. Her poems have also appeared in two previous issues of Pensive. She offers spirituality and poetry workshops online from her home in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts.