Sara Ries DziekonskiSara Ries Dziekonski was Runner-Up for the 2024 Press 53 Award for Poetry for her manuscript, Today's Specials. Sara is a Buffalo native and holds an MFA in poetry from Chatham University. Her first book, Come In, We're Open, won the 2009 Stevens Poery Manuscript Competition. Her chapbooks include Snow Angels on the Living Room Floor (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Marrying Maracuyá (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2021), which won the Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in American Life in Poetry, Slipstream, Potomac Review, SWWIM Every Day, Connecticut River Review, and LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, among others. She is the co-founder of Poetry Midwives Editing and Submission Services and teaches creative writing with Keep St. Pete Lit. Read More Read Less