W.J. Herbert’s debut collection, Dear Specimen, (Beacon Press, 2021) was a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series and awarded a 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. Winner of the 2022 Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize for Poetry, Herbert’s work also appears in The Atlantic, Best American Poetry 2017 & 2024, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She lives mostly in Portland, Maine.[wjherbertpoet.com.]