Jean LeBlanc grew up in Massachusetts midway between Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson. After moving to northwestern New Jersey in 1994, she taught college writing and literature for twenty-five years. Her poetry appears in numerous journals and collections, including Terrible Terrain: Poems Inspired by the Life of Lavinia Dickinson (Shanti Arts, 2023). A vibrant local poetry community keeps her inspired, especially the Writers' Roundtable of Sussex County, New Jersey, and the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center, of which she is a past director. She also explores the transformative power of imagery using collage, asemic writing, and other visual media.