Tree Riesener has two new poetry collections: Inscapes from Finishing Line Press and Angel Poison from Pudding House Publications. Her first chapbook was Liminalog, a collection of ghazals and sijo. She has published poetry and short fiction in numerous literary magazines. A winner in the Authors in the Park Short Story Competition and in England's Ian St. James Competition, she also won a double first for the Short-Short Story and the Literary Short Story at the Philadelphia Writers Conference. Her achievements include the Semi-Finals of the Pablo Neruda Competition, three short stories staged in the Writing Aloud productions of InterAct Theatre, Philadelphia, a Hawthornden International Writing Fellowship, a Pushcart nomination, and the William Van Wert Fiction Award. She is active in Philadelphia area spoken word events. "