Toni Mergentime Levi is the author of For a Dancing Bear (Three Miles Harbor, 1995) and of two other poetry collections: White Food (Mayapple Press, 2016) and Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems (Mayapple Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, Crosscurrents, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, California Quarterly, Apalachee Quarterly, and Manhattan Poetry Review.