Darcy Smith’s debut collection River Skin, Fernwood Press, June 2022, was a semifinalist for the 2020 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Poems have appeared in numerous publications including Grub Street, Two Thirds North, River Heron Review and Anti-Heroin Chic. Smith is a Pushcart Prize nominee, Certified Sign Language Interpreter, Buddhist, kickboxer, wife and mother. She lives with her husband and their cat, Miley in New York’s Hudson Valley.