Janet Rodney (1941–2024) was born in Washington D.C. Her father was killed in the Pacific War in 1942. At the age of nine she moved with her mother to Paris; there followed a lot of travel, learning languages, different schools. About half of her school education was in French. Her mother remarried; they moved to Taipei, then Spain. In Madrid she worked as a reader for publishers, as translator, interpreter, editor and journalist. She left Spain in 1974 to go to graduate school, where she met Nathaniel Tarn. They married in 1983 and later moved to New Mexico. In 1987 she founded The Weaselsleeves Press. Her work as a letterpress printer is in fine print and art book collections across the USA. Her publications include Moon on an Oarblade Rowing (2005), which brought together three previous collections, and Terminal Colors: Selected Poems 1974–2005.