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BARBARA
SCHWARTZ

Barbara Schwartz is the author of two books of poetry, a chapbook Any Thriving Root (dancing girl press, 2017) and the collaborative collection Nothing But Light with poet, Krista J.H. Leahy (Circling Rivers, 2022). A finalist for the 1913 Poetry Prize, Barrow Street Book Prize, and Alice James Award, her hybrid manuscript What Survives is the Fire was selected for Boomerang Theater’s First Flight New Play Festival, and has been included in The University of Miami’s Holocaust Theater Catalog. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Upstreet, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Carolina Quarterly, Quiddity, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Potomac Review, The Hunger Journal, and elsewhere. Barbara is an education consultant and lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY.

KRISTA J.H.
LEAHY

Krista J.H. Leahy is the co-author of Nothing But Light (Circling Rivers, 2022). Her poetry has appeared in The Common (Dispatches), Denver Quarterly, Free Lunch, Raritan, Reckoning, Tin House, and elsewhere. Her prose has appeared in Clarkesworld, Farrago’s Wainscot, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and elsewhere. She would like to thank both Banff and Vermont Studio Center for the gift of time. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.