Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno’s book, Slamming open the Door (Alice James), a memoir in poetry form about the murder of her daughter, was among the ten best-selling books of poetry in the U.S. in 2009. Bonanno has been the Founding Director of Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts, in Philadelphia, PA since 2011. She has work forthcoming in BOAAT, Kentucky Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.