Nancy Mitchell, a 2012 Pushcart Prize recipient, is the author of The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2022), Grief Hut (Cervená Barva Press, 2009), and The Out-of-Body Shop (Mad Hat Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, and Green Mountains Review. An associate editor of special features with Plume Poetry, she is the poet laureate of Salisbury, Md. and hosts the reading series Poets on the Plaza live and on Zoom.