Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of two previous poetry collections: Instead of Sadness, selected by Dan Gerber as winner of the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, and Raft ofDays (2017). Her poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac and Verse Daily and appear in venues including The Southern Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Miramar, Chicago Quarterly Review, Connotation Press, SWWIM, Tar River Poetry and Atticus Review.