Leonore Hildebrandt is the author of Where You Happen to Be, The Work at Hand, and The Next Unknown. Her poems and translations have appeared in The Cafe Review, Cerise Press, The Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Harpur Palate, Poetry Daily, Poetry Salzburg Review, and The Sugar House Review, among other journals. Winner of the 2013 Gemini Poetry Contest, she received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. She was nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. A native of Germany, Leonore lives “off the grid” in Harrington, Maine, and spends the winter in Silver City, NM. She teaches writing at the University of Maine and serves on the editorial board of the Beloit Poetry Journal.