Phyllis Castelli returned to her North Carolina hometown after retiring from her music career. She loves to spend time with her lifetime special interests:  writing, music, photography, a pollinator garden, and Black Labrador Retrievers. Phyllis is interested in creating projects that knit together the beauty of all those favorites. Phyllis’s poems and essays have appeared in Quillkeepers Press, The Avocet, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Tar River Poets, among others. As a very young poet, she published Gentle, I Think, a book of poems with pen and ink illustrations.