A National Poetry Series finalist, JEN KARETNICK is the author of 13 collections of poetry, including Inheritance with a High Error Rate (Cider Press Review), winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award and semifinalist for the Poetry Society of Virginia 2025 North American Book Awards. Forthcoming books include What Forges Us Steel: The Judge Judy Poems (Alternating Current Press, 2025), Domiciliary (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026), and Organ Language (Lit Fox Books, 2026). The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming work in Pleiades, Plume, Seneca Review, Shenandoah, Sixth Finch, swamp pink, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.