Cathy Nicastro spent the first twelve years of her career in education working in early childhood and the last twenty as a secondary high school English teacher. She earned her undergraduate degree at UMASS-Amherst and her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction through Integrating the Arts at Lesley. . A lifelong reader and lover of poetry, Cathy jumped at the chance to take the Poetry in America classes as a student and is excited to be working with students as a T.A. for the program for the first time this semester.