She rekindled her love of poetry as part of a recent sabbatical project where she aimed to become either profound or succinct. The plan was not completely successful, as she still manages somehow to be long-winded and silly, but she was able to develop two chap books of poetry: Remuneration for 1973 and Psalms from her Volcano: God, Water Love. A veteran fictionista in a newfound poet’s blouse, Ms. Darden has two fiction novels in circulation, Enemy Fields and Finding Dignity, as well as several short stories published by Simon and Schuster’s Strebor Books. Her poems are available or forthcoming in a few journals, including Welter Magazine. She holds an MA in English Education from The Johns Hopkins University.