Rikki Santer’s poems have appeared in various publications including Ms. Magazine, Poetry East, Heavy Feather Review, Slab, Slipstream, [PANK], Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, Grimm, Hotel Amerika and The Main Street Rag. My work has received many honors including 2023 Ohio Poet of the Year, Pushcart, Ohioana and Ohio Poet book award nominations as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her collection, Resurrection Letter was grand prize short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and my most recent collection, Shepherd’s Hour, won the Paul Nemser Book Prize from Lily Poetry Review Books.