Wendy McVickerWendy McVicker, 2020-2022 poet laureate of Athens, Ohio, is a longtime Ohio Arts Council teaching artist. Her previous books include the dancer's notes (Finishing Line Press, 2015), the self-published collaboration with visual artist John McVicker Slced Dark (2019), Zero, a Door (The Orchard Street Press, 2021), and Stronger When We Touch, a collaboration with poet Cathy Cultice Lentes (The Orchard Street Press, 2023). She loves collaborating with artists in many media and performs with instrumentalist Emily Prince under the name "another language altogether" whenever she gets the chance. Her children having grown and flown, she lives surrounded by the green hills of southeastern Ohio with her husband and a Hemingway cat named Dora. Read More Read Less