Miriam O'Neal’s work has appeared in LA Review of Books, The Galway Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has new work coming out in The Poetry Porch. The Body Dialogues (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2020), was nominated for a Massachusetts Center for the Book Award. We Start With What We’re Given, (Kelsay Press) came out in 2018. She was a 2019 Pushcart nominee, and a finalist for the 2019 Disquiet International Poetry Prize and 2020 Princemere Poetry Prize. Her newest collection is The Half-Said Things (Nixes Mate 2022). O’Neal also translates Italian poetry. She hosts readings via Poetry the Art of Words in Plymouth, MA and is the 2024-2026 Plymouth Poet Laureate. Contact her at Miriam.e.oneal@gmail.com