Freshwater Pearls is the first full book of poems written by Adele Steiner. Subtly crafted in a lyric voice and comprised of one part reflection and one part imagination, the poems in this collection are detailed explorations of life that are magically transformed through sensuous renderings of the human experience. Adele Steiner is a poet, writer, and teacher. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. She is currently a poet-in-the-schools with the Maryland State Arts Council, an instructor for The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and a 10-year veteran artist-in-residence at Georgetown University Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. She is currently the host of the Caf Muse Poetry Reading Series, and she has participated in numerous poetry readings and panel discussions in the Washington, DC area. Her poetry has won awards from The Maryland Poetry Review and Promise Magazine. She has been published in G argoyle, So To Speak, Wordwrights, Smartish Pace, Innisfree, The Black Buzzard Review, Scribble, The Lucid Stone, an Anthology from Wising Up Press, a chapbook, Refracted Love, a full-length book of poetry, The Moon Lighting, and a collection of poetry writing workshops for young people, Look Ma, "Hands" on Poetry.