Pauline Uchmanowicz is the author of poetry collection Starfish (Twelve Winters Press, 2016) as well two poetry chapbooks and has received residency grants at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. A freelance writer in the Hudson Valley, her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Crazyhorse, Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts Journal, Radcliffe Quarterly, Woodstock Times, Z Magazine, and elsewhere. Series editor for the Codhill Poetry Award (Codhill Press), she was an associate professor of English and director of Creative Writing at SUNY New Paltz.