Marilyn K. Moody grew up on the pancake-flat prairie of Central Illinois — and still prefers open spaces and distant horizons. Two of her recent poems are included in a 2020 Colorado Book Award winner, Rise: An Anthology of Change, published by Northern Colorado Writers. She has also published poems in Progenitor Art & Literary Journal and The Great Isolation: Colorado Creativity in the Time of the Pandemic. Her poem, “Bomb Friday at the Library,” is a 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee. She is a member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Northerm Colorado Writers, and the Poetry Society of Colorado. She lives near Denver.