Mira Rosenthal is the author of Territorial, finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year award, and The Local World, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two Fulbright fellowships, and residencies at Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and the Jan Michalski Foundation. Her work has been nominated twice for the Griffin Poetry Prize and appears regularly in such journals as Poetry, The New York Review of Books, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Guernica, Harvard Review, New England Review, A Public Space, and Oxford American. She is a professor of Creative Writing at Cal Poly and lives in a small town on the central coast of California with three humans, two cats, and many fruit-bearing trees.
green the color of unpolished silverware, green the edge around a bruise, green the longing of missing a place, green placed between two thumbs to make the grass blade whistle,
