June 20, 2024

Susan Rich’s six poetry books include Blue Atlas (Red Hen Press) and Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry). She also coedited Demystifying the Manuscript with Kelli Russell Agodon and The Strangest of Theatres (McSweeney’s) with Ilya Kaminsky and Brian Turner. Rich’s awards include an Artist Trust Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and the Peace Corps Writers Award. Recent poems appear in the New England Review, Poetry Ireland, and The Slowdown. Susan lives in West Seattle and directs Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Writing Retreat for Women. https://www.poetsusanrich.com/

Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press), a 2022 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist, and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read,” and the chapbook, Innocents (Nixes Mate). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize, she is poetry coeditor of MER. https://www.cindyveach.com/