Woman Looks into an Eye | Vanessa Zimmer-Powell

  Vanessa Zimmer-Powell was born and raised in the New Orleans area. She has lived in Texas most of her adult life, and currently lives in Houston with her husband and four cats. Vanessa has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Texas at Austin. She works as a speech-language pathologist, and enjoys the poetry, art, and dance communities of Houston. Vanessa is regularly featured at Houston’s Words and Art reading program, and was the winner of the 2016 Houston Poetry Fest ekphrastic competition. In 2013 she won a Rick Steve's Haiku Award and received honors at the Austin International Poetry Fest. Her poetry has aired on KTRU, Houston Public Radio, and the Rick Steves radio program.  Vanessa’s poetry has been published in the Austin International Poetry Festival anthologies; Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems; Weekly Avocet; Blue Hole; Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review; Chaffey Review; Co