Liz Ahl is the author of the full-length poetry collections A Case for Solace (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), winner of the 2023 New Hampshire Literary Award in Poetry, and Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017). She is also the author of several chapbooks, most recently A Stanza is a Place to Stand, published in the Seven Kitchens Press A.V. Christie series in 2023. Her first chapbook, A Thirst That’s Partly Mine, won the 2008 Slapering Hol Press chapbook contest). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, Measure, Rogue Agent, and Nimrod. Her work has also been included in numerous anthologies, including Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press, 2022), This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017). She has been awarded residencies at Playa, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. She was professor of English for 24 years at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, where she still lives.