Athena confronts relationships between mother and daughter, a strong woman's place in a hyper-masculine society, Athena's relationship with the poet, Sapho, and Athena's way of dealing with her father, Zeus.
Silvia Scheibli has served as judge for the 2017 Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. In 2015 she was invited to Ecuador in a cultural exchange of poets between the United States and Ecuador touring and reciting in the Amazonas as well as Quito, Babajoyo and Guayaquil with Alan Britt and Steve Barfield. Besides publishing eight books of poems including, The Moon Rises in the Rattlesnake's Mouth, by Bitter Oleander Press, Under the Loquat Tree in 2002 by Vida Publishing and Parabola Dreams co-authored with Alan Britt in 2013 by Bitter Oleander Press, she is the editor and publisher of Cypress Review and Cypress Books since 1980.
