Eleanor Kedney is the author of Between the Earth and Sky (C&R Press, 2020) and the chapbook The Offering (Liquid Light Press, 2016). Her latest book, Twelve Days From Transfer, was a 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards finalist and Between the Earth and Sky was a finalist in 2021. Her work has been published in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies. She is the recipient of the 2019 riverSedge Poetry Prize (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). Honors include finalist in the 2020 Mslexia Poetry Competition and American Book Fest Best Book Awards. In 2005, Eleanor founded the Tucson branch of the New York-based Writers Studio and served as the director for ten years. She joined the Tucson Poetry Festival board in 2021. Based on craft techniques utilized in her books, she developed and teaches the “Writing Toward Forgiveness” workshop.