Barbara Helfgott Hyett is a cofounder of the Writer's Room of Boston and is currently the director of POEMWORKS: The Workshop for Publishing Poets. She has taught at Boston University, MIT, and Harvard University. The author of four collections of poetry including The Tracks We Leave, Poems on Endangered Wildlife of North America, and The Double Reckoning of Christopher Columbus, she has worked as a visiting poet in schools all over Massachusetts. Her programs with students, teachers, and families include reading and writing workshops in childhood memory, parenting, and watchfulness.

Barbara Helfgott Hyett's poems reflect both her anguish and her fervor; their warmth elevates the reader to spiritual heights. - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and author of Night ""Helfgott Hyett's poems about love, infidelity and the body in all its guises are tough, tender, and juicy."" - Maxine Kumin, author of Still to Mow, Poems