Nicole Caruso Garcia is the author of OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press, 2022), which was named a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award and the Richard Wilbur Award. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Best New Poets, DIAGRAM, Crab Orchard Review, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, ONE ART, The Orchards, PANK, Plume, The Raintown Review, Rattle, RHINO, Sonora Review, Spillway, Tupelo Quarterly, and Extreme Sonnets and Extreme Formal Poems (both from Rhizome Press). She serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference. Visit her at www.nicolecarusogarcia.com.