J.L. Stanley writes: I was born in Spokane, Washington, and after many travels, eventually ended up in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area where I work in the software industry. I am also an artist and single parent who was blessed to raise the most wonderful son.

I think I've always been a poet...some years the words flow, other years they're in that chaos state before birth. I have had many inspirations and muses in the course of my life - my loves and friends and family, my insatiable curiosity getting me into trouble, but most especially I am inspired by that spirit of being which has always seemed to me to flow through everything. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, it speaks to me. It's a tender, gentle voice at times, and at other times a ravaging cry... is it Dionysus, Ariadne, the sun or moon, my ancestors, my own soul? The world and life become more mysterious and unknowable the older I get.
My collected works of poetry - Labyrinth Poems - are posted on my site at http://www.jlstanley.com/