July 21, 2022

Kristen Lindquist, a writer and naturalist from Camden, Maine, received an MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and anthologies. Her first full-length poetry collection, Transportation, was a finalist for the Maine Literary Award, and Garrison Keillor read three of its poems on “The Writer’s Almanac.” Her most recent book is Tourists in the Known World. Her haiku chapbook, It Always Comes Back, won the 2020 Snapshot Press eChapbook Award. She maintains a daily haiku blog, “Book of Days,” at her website, www.kristenlindquist.com.

Lesley Dauer recently retired from teaching at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, including Grand Street, New England Review, and Poetry, and several anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation from Carnegie Mellon University Press and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets from University Press of New England. The Fragile City, her first book of poems, won the Bluestem Award and was published in 1996. Her second, Carnival Life, won the Adrienne Bond Award from Mercer University Press and was published in 2016.