SHARON ISRAEL hosts the radio program, Planet Poet, an edition of the Writer's Voice, on WIOX FM, in Roxbury, New York, a hamlet in the Catskill Mountains. As a poet and soprano, Sharon collaborates with composer Robert Cucinotta on works for voice, live instruments, and electronics and has premiered several of his works in New York. She was an early recipient of Brooklyn College's Leonard Hecht Poetry Explication Award, and her work most recently appeared in Per Contra, SPANK the CARP, 5:2 Crime Poetry Weekly, Medical Literary Messenger and Spry Literary Journal.