Mary Lou will be in conversation with H.E. Fisher.

MARY LOU BUSCHI is the author of three full-length poetry collections most recently, BLUE PHYSICS (Lily Poetry Review, 2024). PADDOCK (LPR, 2021). AWFUL BABY (RPH, 2015). Mary Lou’s poems appear in literary journals such as Ploughshares, Willow Springs, The Laurel Review, Rhino, Radar, On the Seawall, The Glacier, among others. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College: MFA Program for Writers and an MS in Urban Education from Mercy College. She is a special education teacher in the Bronx . Mary Lou lives in Nyack, NY with Max and Jeff. Her preferred pronouns are (she/her).

H.E. Fisher is the author of the collection Sterile Field (Free Lines Press, 2022) and chapbook Jane Almost Always Smiles (Moonstone Arts Center Press, 2022). H.E.’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DMQ Review, Ligeia Magazine, Broadsided Press, Tupelo Quarterly, and Whale Road Review, among other publications and anthologies. H.E. was awarded City College of New York’s 2019 Stark Poetry Prize and has received nominations for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and is a recipient of a Poets Afloat residency. H.E. is the editor of (Re) An Ideas Journal and is a writing coach. H.E. currently lives in The Hudson River Valley.