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Virginia Lee Hines spent her early life in Chicago, Illinois.  She received her B.A. in English from Roosevelt University, and attended graduate school at De Paul University.  She taught in Chicago public schools.  She did volunteer work at settlement houses.  Her father was a welder and union organizer.  Her mother was a quilter with a Quaker background.  Virginia married a psychologist, Harold Heftel.  They have two children.  She moved to Rochester, NY in 1964, and participated in the co-op movement in the 1970s.  She studied photography, pottery, and painting at Rochester Institute of Technology.  She exhibited and sold her work.  She had a photograph published in a national magazine.  For the last twelve years, she has led a WOMAN POET group, fostering the development of a group of woman writers.  Her work has been published in several journals including Room of One's Own, Byline, and Encodings.  Her work reflects a feminist, grassroots mentality, and interest in nature.  Poetry by Virginia Lee Hines: Vol. 2 No. 1 Telling a Life Losers My Own Words