Stella Beratlis is the author of Dust Bown Venus and Alkali Sink. She grew up in a second-generation Greek-American family in Northern California. Her work has appeared in Harbor Review, Penumbra, Song of the San Joaquin, In-Posse Review, California Quarterly, and elsewhere, as well as in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010) and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets, 2020). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press, 2011) and served as the poet laureate of Modesto from 2016-2020. Beratlis is a librarian in Modesto, CA.

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