Lucinda Trew is a poet and essayist whose work has been featured in Timberline Review, Broad River Review, storySouth, Eastern Iowa Review, Mockingheart Review, Flying South and other journals and anthologies. She was named a North Carolina Poetry Society poet laureate award finalist in 2021 and 2022, is a Best of the Net nominee, a 2021 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition finalist, and a Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices chapbook finalist. She teaches at Wingate University and lives and writes in Union County, N.C.