Andrea Potos is the author of six poetry collections, including An Ink Like Early Twilight and We Lit the Lamps Ourselves, both from Salmon Poetry, and Yaya’s Cloth from Iris Press. She received the William Stafford Prize for Poetry from Rosebud Magazine, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review, and three Outstanding Achievement Awards in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies in print and online, including Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Ascent, Southern Poetry Review, Tiferet Journal, The First Day, Serving House Journal, Sou’wester, Nimrod International Journal, Women’s Review of Books, Literary Mama, The Mom Egg, Heron Tree and many others. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family.