Oh Professor! My Professor!

Professor Margo Ellery is the scandal of the art department. She works barefoot in the studio, plays Ginsberg on the record player, and lets a smoke that isn't tobacco curl out of her office window. The dean calls her a problem. Ana Chandra calls her the most alive person she has ever met.

Margo notices things. She sees the way Ana studies a model's shoulder, the way she lingers after class, the questions she never quite asks. And one rainy evening, in a studio that smells of turpentine and jasmine, Margo answers every one of them.

A lesson in light and line becomes Ana's real education: poetry, pleasure, and a love that could get them both thrown off campus.