Rebecca Reynolds will be reading from her new award-winning collection of poetry. Otherly won the 42 Miles Poetry Award in 2023. 

Rebecca Reynolds has published two books of poetry, Daughter of the Hangnail, and The Bovine Two-Step, with New Issues Press. Her first book, Daughter of the Hangnail, received the 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has been a recipient of a Hopwood Award in poetry and a grant from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. She lives on the western edge of New Jersey with her wife and cats and teaches creative writing at Rutgers, New Brunswick. She grew up in Washington, D.C.