Amelia L WilliamsAmelia L. Williams, PhD, a medical writer, hiker, and amateur naturalist, lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She coordinated "The Ties That Bind: A #NoPipelines Collaborative Art and Story Project" of over 250 fabric braids made by ctizens in affected communities to protest proposed fracked-gas pipelines in Virginia. Her full-length poetry collection was a finalist for the 2022 Wandering Aengus Press Book Award. Twice a Pushcart nominee, she served as Assistant Editor with OneEarthSangha and earned a residency at the Hambidge Center. In 2022 she was a semifinalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Proceeds from her 2016 chapbook, Walking Wildwood Trail: Poems and Photograph, benefit local environmental organizations. Her poems and hybrids have appeared in TAB, Streetlight Magazine, The Hollins Critic, ANMLY, Rabbit, Nimrod International Journal, K'in Literary Journal, The Hopper, Poetry South, and elsewhere. Read More Read Less