Tender

is the author of the forthcoming memoir DELICATE MACHINE, (Dzanc Books, 2027) OF TYRANT, (Word Works Books 2024) and the upcoming collection, ORDINARY SPLENDOR (Etruscan Press, 2028). She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011. Her creative work has been featured on PBS and The Slowdown, and in such places as The Nation, The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY, and American Poetry Review.