Fire at the Big Top - Paperback

Yannone, Sandra: - Sandra Yannone (she/they) lives bicoastally in Washington state and Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where she serves as poet laureate. In 2027, she will assume responsibilities as Managing Editor of Connecticut River Review. Salmon Poetry published The Glass Studio (2024) and her debut collection, Boats for Women (2019). She is co-editor of Unsinkable: Poems Inspired by the Titanic (Salmon 2026) and series editor for Seven Kitchens Press's A.V. Christie Chapbook Series (women poets over fifty). She serves on the board of the Olympia Poetry Network and on the advisory committee for Poetry by the Sea. Her poetry and book reviews appear internationally in print and online in Ploughshares, Poetry Ireland Review, SWWIM Every Day, Skylight 47, Prairie Schooner, Booth, CALYX, Lavender Review, Women's Review of Books, and The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, among countless others. Her work has received an AWP's Intro Journals Project award and anAcademy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize as well as multiple nominations for the Pushcart and Best ofthe Net awards. In March 2020, she co-founded and continues to host the international, intersectional, intergenerational online readingseries Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry. She also co-hosts Last Tuesdays with Sandy and Thomas for the Olympia Poetry Network and West-East Bicoastal Poets and Beyond online bimonthly. From 2020-2021, she hosted Headmistress Press's The Collectibles. Headmistress Press honored Yannone as card #85 in its Lesbian Poets Trading Cards series. Yannone holds undergraduate, master's, and doctorate degrees in poetry from Wheaton College (Mass.), Emerson College, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, respectively. In 2023, she retired from her career as Faculty Writing Center Director at The Evergreen State College to devote herself fulltime to poetry endeavors known and unknown to her. Visit her at www.sandrayannone.com to inquire about possibilities.