Patricia Caspers has received California Newspaper Association's award for best columnist and best education reporter, as well as the Nimrod / Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her work is published widely in journals such as Ploughshares, Spillway, and Sugar House Review. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections; In the Belly of the Albatross (Glass Lyre Press, 2015) and Some Flawed Magic (Kelsay Books, 2021). She is the founding EIC of West Trestle Review and lives in Northern California with her family.