Laurel Radzieski is a poet and the author of Red Mother (NYQ Books, 2018), which won the 2020 Whirling Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Atlas and Alice, Rust + Moth, Kosmos Journal, SPLASH! and elsewhere, including on roadsides and a street sign in Wisconsin. She is a teaching artist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Arts in Education program of the Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit and spends here days working as a Grant Writer. Laurel earned her MFA from Goddard College and she has been a writer-in-residence at the Wormfarm Institute. She enjoys writing poems for strangers. Laurel lives with her husband and a cat in northeastern Pennsylvania.