Rita Mae Reese is the author of The Alphabet Conspiracy and The Book of Hulga, which was selected by Denise Duhamel for the Felix Pollak Prize. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship in fiction, and a “Discovery”/The Nation award, among other awards. She designs lesbian poet trading cards for Headmistress Press and is the Director of Literary Arts at the Arts + Literature Laboratory (artlitlab.org) in Madison, Wisconsin. Find out more at ritamaereese.com.
Poems – Rita Mae Reese