Lori Ulrich is an elementary school teacher at a K-12 rural school. Directing Sr. Drama plays is one of her passions. She has been writing poetry for many years and has attended several workshops with prominent poets. Lori belongs to a writer’s group Sisters Ink, publishing two chapbooks with them and working on the third. She has published one story in Chicken Soup for the Caregiver’s Soul (Lianna) and poems in a variety of journals. Lori feels a poem lurking around all corners of her life; at home with family, in the voice of a robin at her farm, and in the rolling of the tires as she drives to work. Lori believes the meaning of life is to experience connection.