Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the author of Later, Knives & Trees; Pyre; Mirror Inside Coffin;  Mantic; Apparition Wren (also a Spanish Edition translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and several chapbooks. She is the winner of the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and The Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award, among others. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prize on numerous occasions.   Her translations of the poetry of Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay, 1892-1979) and Mario Domínguez Parra are available through Poetry Salzburg Review.  She teaches online with the Poetry Barn and is the book editor for Poemeleon.