Natalie Bryant Rizzieri is a poet, writer, activist, mother and mystic. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Pleaides, Terrain.org, and Crab Orchard Review. She is the winner of the Hackney Literary Award. She has seventeen years of nonprofit leadership experience and worked for nearly two decades in Armenia. She founded a movement of forever homes for abandoned Armenians with special needs. Read more here. She spends her free time, at least in spring, digging for earthworms, watching for ravens and collecting moss. She is making a home deep in the forest near Flagstaff, Arizona with her family.