Molly Lou Freeman shares poems from a book manuscript entitled Shelter. She is currently writing a novel. Recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and poetry awards from the French National Literary Endowment, she teaches and translates poetry in Paris. Her poems have been published in numerous American poetry journals. She has recently lectured on poetry at the NYU and Columbia University Departments of Creative Writing. She makes her home in France and is living this year in Mexico.