This poet and artist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1979, she bought a one way plane ticket to Portland, Oregon where she currently resides.
Winter has been widely published and her work has appeared in numerous periodicals , including A Change In Weather, Anthology of Midwest Women Poets, High/Coo; Boom, Cream City Review, Anemone, Poetic Space, Portland Review, Mr. Cogito, Z Miscellaneous, Perceptions, Pointed Circle, Fireweed, Portlander, Plazm, Rain City Review, Talus And Scree, Northwest Literary Forum, Portlandia Review Of Books, Hummingbird and The Temple.
Her poems have been used as liner notes for Cds and set to music by composers. She appears on educational interactive software, Writing for Readers by Pierian Spring.
Winter currently publishes TAKE OUT, a bag-a-zine of art, writing and music. She has been the guest of honor for the SilentArt Festival 2007 in Bochum Germany. Coming Here to be Alone was translated into German and published in a limited edition with the translations and English versions.