Margo Taft Stever’s full length collections include The End of Horses (Broadstone Books, 2022), one of three winners of a 2022 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award and winner of a 2023 NYC Big Book Favorite in the poetry category; Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019) shortlisted with honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; and Frozen Spring (2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry). Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). In 2022, Susana H. Case and Stever edited I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press, 2022), which was the sole winner of a 2022 Pinnacle Achievement Book Award in the anthology category, a finalist for the 2022 International Book Award, and a finalist for the 2022 American Book Fest Award. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Plume; Verse Daily; “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Academy of American Poets; Prairie Schooner; Connecticut Review; Cincinnati Review; upstreet; Plant-Human Quarterly; and Salamander. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center, for which she served as director and later chairperson of the board of directors beginning in 1983 until 2000, and she is founder of Slapering Hol Press, for which she served as co-editor from its inception in 1990 until 2024. She also teaches a poetry workshop for at-risk adolescents at Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, New York (www.margotaftstever.com).