SAHLI ANNE CAVALLARO, PHD, is a psychologist and Lesbian/Buddhist identified poet.  She has read throughout the country including the West Village of New York City, the Halls of Vanderbilt University, in Albany NY, and in Nashville, Tennessee. She has two published poetry books titled, The Second Arrow and  Hard Fruit. 

 

The poems Hard Fruit reflect a multitude of inspirational sources. She has a heritage of poets in her family beginning with her paternal grandfather who wrote humorous animal poems and read them in the piazza of his hometown in the foothills of Mt. Etna of Sicily.  As well, her maternal grandmother wrote poems and published them in women’s magazines in the 1930’s and 40’s. She has a passion for describing the myriad of quirks in people who might otherwise go unnoticed.  She finds revelation in the luxurious fruits, lifting spirituality, and intense mystery involved with loving women. She assumes a cause for the neglect and misuse of animals in their domestic and natural kingdom. 

 

Forever inspired by possibilities obscured by habits, she tends to drive through the superiority motives behind the intent to reject what does not fit.   Her verse is meant to disturb and delight with what has yet been unspoken. Residing in Northern California with her beloved animal companions she practices clinical psychology privately and in a military setting.