Cathy Warner is author of three books of poetry: Difficult Gifts, Home By Another Road, and Burnt Offerings. She is also editor of the anthologies: Poemographs for Peace, Poemographs, and Viral Verse: Poetry of the Pandemic. Her fiction, memoir, and essays have appeared in Under the Sun, The Other Journal, So To Speak, Water~Stone, and the blogs of Ruminate, Relief, and Image, among others. Recipient of the Steinbeck and SuRaa fiction awards, Cathy has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She writes, teaches, edits, and renovates homes, in Western Washington. Find her at cathywarner.com.