January 21, 2021

Sandra Yannone’s interest in the Titanic anchors the poems in her debut collection Boats for Women (Salmon Poetry, 2019). Her poems and book reviews have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Schooner, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Glass: A Poetry Journal, Women’s Review of Books, Lambda Literary Review, Calyx, and Seattle Review. Her work has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and an AWP Intro Award. She currently hosts the weekly reading series Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry on Facebook via Zoom from Olympia, Washington. Please visit Sandra’s website.

Tina Schumann has published three poetry collections: Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press, 2019), Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions, 2017), winner of the Diode Editions chapbook competition, and As If (Parlor City Press, 2010), winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. She is editor of the IPPY award-winning anthology Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents (Red Hen, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Ascent, Cimarron Review, Nimrod, Poetry Daily, Rattle, The Journal of American Poetry, Verse Daily, and chosen by Garrison Keillor for “The Writer’s Almanac.” Visit her website.