Mónica Gomery is the author of Might Kindred, winner of the Prairie Schooner/Raz-Shumaker Book Prize (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018), and the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). Her poems have been awarded the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, and appear recently in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, West Branch, and elsewhere. She serves as a rabbi at Kol Tzedek Synagogue, is a member of Rabbis for Ceasefire, and lives in Philadelphia.