Julia Lisella’s latest collection, Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press 2022), was named a finalist in the 2023 Paterson Book Prize as well as Grand Prize Finalist and Poetry Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer 2023 Book Award. Other collections are Always, Terrain, and Love Song Hiroshima. Her work has been widely anthologized and has appeared before in Pangyrus, as well as in The Common, Ploughshares, Nimrod, and others. She teaches at Regis College and co-curates the Italian American Writers Association-Boston Reading Series. For more, see www.julialisellapoetry.com