Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives and writes in the Arkansas Ozarks. She has an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of three books, Reading Berryman to the Dog (2000,) Discount Fireworks (2008) and The Mercy of Traffic (Unlikely Books, 2019) and five chapbooks, most recently They Went Down to the Beach to Play (LoCoFo Chaps, 2017.) Her work appears on line and in print and in the recent, anthologies, In Plein Air, (Poetic License Press, 2017), Untold Arkansas (Et Alia Press, 2018,) 50/50 (Quill's Edge Press, 2018), Fiolet and Wing (Liminal Books, 2019) and Pocket Poems (*82 Review, 2019.)