Poet, collagist, teacher and screenwriter Wren Tuatha is author of Thistle and Brilliant (Finishing Line Press). She's founding director of Ithaca Poetry Center; editor of Califragile (journal of social justice and climate change); reader at Clockhouse. She was Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center. Wren received her MFA at Goddard College and attended Community of Writers. She studied Education at University of Louisville, and Film, Poetry, and Gay and Lesbian Studies at Towson University. She received grants to perform her poetry from Towson University's Women's Center and Office of Diversity. Her writing has appeared in Seneca Review, Hunger Mountain, NonBinary Review, About Place Journal, Slipstream, Inverted Syntax, The Cafe Review, Silk Road, Canary, Sierra Nevada Review, Baltimore Review, The Lake, Pirene’s Fountain, Lavender Review, and the anthology When Home Is Not Safe, Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse. A survivor of California's #CampFire, her work appears in California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, edited by Molly Fisk. She was a frequent guest on various KZFR programs. Wren and her partner, author/activist C.T. Butler, escaped the Camp Fire burn zone, now herding their rescue goats among the Finger Lakes of New York.