Originally from Long Island, New York, Catherine Esposito Prescott’s poetry collection, Accidental Garden, won Gunpowder Press’s 2022 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize (selected by Danusha Laméris). She is also the author of two chapbooks, Maria Sings (dancing girl press, 2017) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in EcoTheo Review, Green Mountains Review Online, MER VOX, Mezzo Cammin, NELLE, Northwest Review, Pleiades, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and West Trestle Review. Her second full-length collection, How We Disappear (formerly titled We Were Never Here and My Sweet Atlantis), was a finalist for Michigan State University’s Wheelbarrow Books Prize, The St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press), and the Texas Review Press Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Hilary Tham Capitol Collection competition (The Word Works). Prescott earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from NYU.