Elizabeth Harmatys Park PhD is a past recipient of the First Place Jade Ring Poetry Prize awarded by the Wisconsin Writers Association and the New Feathers 2020 Award. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and in anthologies such as Bards Against Hunger, Ariel, From the Ashes, Poetry for Ukraine and The Milwaukee Anthology. She writes with Authors Echo in Burlington, WI and is a regular contributor to the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar. Elizabeth Harmatys Park has published three chapbooks: “The Sun Exists to Love the Earth”, “Traces”, and “Theater of Seasons”.