Catherine Arra is the author of four full-length poetry collections and five chapbooks. A former English and writing teacher, she now facilitates local writing groups. Her newest full-length collection, Last Evening With All the Versions of Myself, was first finalist in the 2025 Donna Wolf-Palacio Poetry Book Prize and will be published by Finishing Line Press, September 2026. A collaborative ekphrastic chapbook, The Razor Tip of an Arrowhead, fourteen photos by Alex Stolis and poems by Catherine with a few co-written with Alex, is forthcoming from Dos Madres Press in 2026. Arra lives in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York with her partner Alex Stolis and their dog Daisy. www.catherinearra.com