Cynthia White is a poet based in Santa Cruz, California. Her poems have appeared in Adroit, Massachusetts Review, ZYZZYVA, Southern Poetry Review, New Letters, Poet Lore and Plume among others. Her work can be found in numerous anthologies, including leaning toward light: Poems for gardens and the hands that tend them from Storey Press. She was a finalist for Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize and the winner of the Julia Darling Memorial Prize from Kallisto Gaia Press. Her poem “She Said Stop Here” was recently included in the preface to “Alma Mater” a work by London playwright Kendall Feaver. Cynthia is a screener for Red Wheelbarrow’s annual poetry prize.