Winters, Topaz: - Topaz Winters is the founder & editor-in chief of the internationally-acclaimed publishing house, literary journal, & arts organization Half Mystic. Her work has been published in & featured by Diode, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Straits Times, Entropy, the Boston Poetry Slam, the Singapore Writers Festival, & the Academy of American Poets, among others. Topaz studies Creative Writing, Visual Art, Cognitive Science, & Italian at Princeton University. Other books by Topaz include Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing & poems for the sound of the sky before thunder.