Delight Is a Field - Paperback

Dreese, Donelle: - Donelle Dreese is a writer and Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University where she teaches environmental and multicultural literatures, American women poets, and literature and film. Donelle is the author of several poetry collections, including Sophrosyne (2015) and Organelle (2021). Her poetry and essays have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals, including Potomac Review, Roanoke Review, Louisville Review, and Quiddity International. In addition, Donelle serves as President of Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary, Cincinnati's only dedicated natural burial preserve. She writes about natural burial and "death positive" topics as a regular contributor for Psychology Today. For more information, visit donelledreese.com.George, Karen: - Karen George is a retired programmer/analyst and author of five chapbooks, most recently the collaborative ekphrastic Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and four poetry collections: Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021), and Caught in the Trembling Net (2024). She has received grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council. She won Slippery Elm's 2022 poetry contest, and her award-winning short story collection, How We Fracture, was published by Minerva Rising Press in 2024. Her work appears in Adirondack Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Ekphrastic Poetry Review, Indianapolis Review, Salamander, and Poet Lore. For more information, visit karenlgeorge.blogspot.com.Jentsch, Nancy K.: - Nancy K. Jentsch is a retired German professor at Northern Kentucky University. Her chapbook Authorized Visitors (Cherry Grove Collections) and the collaborative ekphrastic chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press), in which her poetry appears, were published in 2017. Since 2008, when she began writing, her work has appeared in both online and print journals, such as Amethyst Review, Eclectica, Panoply, Tiferet Journal, and Zingara Poetry Review, and also in numerous anthologies. In 2020 she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her collection Between the Rows was published by Shanti Arts in 2022 and a chapbook, Intersecting Orbits (Bottlecap Press), in 2024. For more information, visit jentsch8.wixsite.com/my-site.