Susan Michele CoronelA two-time Pushcart nominee, Susan Michele Coronel has had poems published in numerous journals including MOM Egg Review, Pedestal, Nixes Mate Review, Redivider, TAB Journal, One Art, and Spillway 29. In 2023, she won the Massachusetts Poetry Festiva's First Poem Award. Versions of this book were named finalists for Harbor Editions' Laureate Prize (2021), the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2023), the C&R Press Poetry Award (2023), and the Louise Bogan Award (2024). In 2021 she received a Parent Poet Fellowship for Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing's summer conference. Ms. Coronel holds an M.S. Ed. in Applied Linguistics from the City University of New York (Queens College) and a B.A. in English from Indiana-University Bloomington. She lives in New York City. Read More Read Less