Sharon Olinka is the author of The Good City (Marsh Hawk Press) and her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Poetry Wales, New York Quarterly, The Texas Observer, and many other publications. She was a guest writer for the Department Studies at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. “Becoming Donkey Lady" and "Love me as I am" are from a long poem sequence called "The Donkey Lady." (Photo credit: Al Rendo)