Anna Rose Welch (she/her/hers) holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Her first book, We, the Almighty Fires, was published by Alice James Books in 2018, and was the winner of the 2016 Alice James Award. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2014, Kenyon Review Online, Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Barrow Street, The Paris-American, and other publications. She lives in Erie, PA, where she is the chief editor of a pharmaceutical publication and a violinist in several local ensembles. (bio and photo from Alice James Books)