Alyson Gold Weinberg renders the "yearning curve" from trauma to transcendence in this, her debut, poetry collection, chosen as part of Finishing Line Press' New Women's Voices Series. Alyson's poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies including december, One Art, Halfway Down the Stairs, The Best of Choeofpleirn Press, Movable Type, among others. She is a 2021 Jeff Marks Memorial Prize finalist, judged by Carl Phillips; the 2021 Inner Loop/District Fray Poetry Prize winner; and the 2021 Derick Burleson Prize winner. She is also a 2022 Harbor Review Jewish Women's Poetry Prize finalist. When not writing poetry, plays, and speeches, and ghostwriting non-fiction books, Alyson binge-watches Ru Paul's Drag Race with her family.
