Gloria Creed-Dikeogu spent the best part of twenty years compiling three volumes of personal poems, while following various personal and educational pursuits in South Africa and the United States. Initially, the poems that were compiled in these volumes were only used on occasion for sharing with small groups of friends and were originally not written for publication. The sixty poems that were selected for inclusion in this work, from that original compilation, were chosen and reworked in the hope that they might be perused and enjoyed by all. Especially those who have experienced the joys of parenthood, the pressures and frustrations of learning to love in, live in and thrive in a new culture, to interact with loved-ones and with loss at a distance and to accept the complexities and complications that follow in the wake of assimilation.

Gloria Creed-Dikeogu is a poet, librarian, life-long learner and educator. She grew up in the suburbs, in Cape Town South Africa and currently works as the director of an academic library. She is a part-time doctoral student in Instructional Technology and has an avid interest in writing children’s stories and adult mystery fiction. Gloria lives with her husband and son in Lawrence, Kansas.