Clare BanksClare Banks is associate editor for Smartish Pace. A recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, her poems have been featured in the The Best American Poetry blog, and in such journals as B O D Y, The Louisville Review, Misissippi Review, and Poet Lore. She was nominated for the Best New Poets 2023 anthology by Mississippi Review, was a 2023 finalist in Radar Poetry's Coniston Prize and a 2024 finalist in Iron Horse Literary Review's National Poetry Month Prize. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland and lives in Baltimore City where she co-hosts The HOT L Poets Series. Notes on Endings is her début full-length collection. Read More Read Less