Cindy VeachCindy Veach is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press), a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award; Her Kind (CavanKerry Press), an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Pres), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must Read." She is also the author of the chapbook Innocents (Nixes Mate Press) and co-author, with J. D. Scrimgeour, of the script Imprisoned! 1692 produced by the Essex National Heritage Commission. Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize (selected by Mary Ruefle) and the Samuel Allen Washington Prize (selected by Marilyn Nelson), she is poetry co-editor of MER. Cindy received an MFA from the University of Oregon where she was a graduate teaching fellow and an assistant poetry editor for Northwest Review. She has been a workshop instructor, a panelist at poetry festivals, and served as a reader and judge for poetry contests. After living on Boston's North Shore (Cape Ann) for thirty years, Cindy now resides in the Seattle area in 2021. Read More Read Less