A nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had over 500 poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has eleven books to her credit, the newest of which is Bunchberries, More Poems of Canada, a sequel to Godwit:  Poems of Canada (FootHills), which received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. Her poem “See: Love” was a finalist for the 2015 Pangaea Prize. She was a member of Just Poets board of directors (Rochester, NY) for several years, and is a member of the New Mexico State Poetry Society, and the Florida State Poetry Society.  Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet.