Annette Langlois Grunseth has published three books, received a Pushcart Prize nomination for "Becoming Trans-Parent: One Family’s Journey of Gender Transition" and a Gold Medal from the Military Writers Society of America for "Combat and Campus: Writing Through War." A winner of the Hal Gruetzmacher Poetry Prize, she is also recognized by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Her poems appear in "Poetry of Presence II," "Love Is For All of Us", "The Poeming Pigeon (The Poetry Box"), "Moss Piglet," "Amethyst Review," "Silver Birch Press," and other literary anthologies. Her latest full-length book is "Summer Days at the Five and Dime" (Elm Grove Press, 2026)