rose auslander lives on Cape Cod. She is the author of the book Wild Water Child was the winner of the 2016 Bass River Press Poetry Contest, was a finalist for the 2024 Four Way Press Levis Prize in Poetry, and the 2024 Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize. Her poems have appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Hunger Mountain, New Ohio Review, LEON, RHINO, and many others. https://roseauslander.wordpress.com/
auslander’s poem “One daughter can’t sleep” was inspired by An Arsenal of Mysteries: The Terrifying Allure of a Remote Caribbean Island by Carina del Valle Schorske. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/magazine/mona-island-puerto-rico.html