Wendy DeGroat is a poet, teacher-librarian, and mindfulness instructor in Richmond, Virginia, where she periodically teaches workshops about documentary poetry, research, and finding inspiration in quirky artifacts from local archives. Her poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Commonplace, the museum of americana, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere. She publishes the Substack newsletter Furrow and Fire and is currently planning the serial publication of her docupoetry manuscript about Progressive-era philanthropist and educator Grace Arents and her companion, Mary Garland Smith.