Ruth Holzer is the author of ten chapbooks, most recently, “On the Way to Man in Moon Passage” (dancing girl press) and “Float” (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, California Quarterly, Freshwater, Slant and elsewhere. A multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she has won the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Prize, the Tanka Splendor Award and the Ito En Art of Haiku Contest Grand Prize.