Mary Block is the author of Love from the Outer Bands, forthcoming in 2025 from The Word Works. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2020, RHINO, Nimrod International Journal, and Sonora Review, among other publications. Her work can be found online at Rattle, SWWIM Every Day, Aquifer—The Florida Review Online, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of New York University's Creative Writing Program, a 2018 Best of the Net finalist, a 2012 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Mary lives with her family in her hometown of Miami, Florida, where she is an editor and the Director of Development at SWWIM. More at www.maryblock.net