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Desirée Alvarez is a painter and poet whose work speaks to a mythic human interaction with the natural world. Her work has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Willard L. Metcalf Award, three Artist Fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a European Capital of Culture Award. Her second book of poems, Raft of Flame, was awarded the Omnidawn 2019 Lake Merritt Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, Fence, and The Iowa Review. She received the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award from Denver Quarterly.

In addition to writing poetry and songs, Sara Epstein, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness practices, including writing, in her psychotherapy work with children and adults. She also facilitates and teaches generative writing groups and classes. Sara Epstein's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly, Amethyst Review, Chest Journal, Nixes Mate Review, Plainsongs, museum of Americana, and others. Her book reviews have been published in Mom Egg Review. Bar of Rest is her first book of poetry.

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