Patricia Caspers is an award-winning columnist, journalist, and poet. Caspers’ work has been published widely, and in 2017 California Newspapers Association named her the best columnist and best education reporter in the state. Caspers won the Nimrod-Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize Poetry and has published three full-length collections: The Most Kissed Woman in the World (Kelsay Books, 2024), Some Flawed Magic (Kelsay Books, 2021) and In the Belly of the Albatross (Glass Lyre Press, 2015). She is the founder / publisher of West Trestle Review. She graduated from Mills College in Oakland, California, with an MFA in creative writing. She is a Unitarian Universalist. Follow her on Instagram @patriciacasperswriter or Facebook @patriciacasperspoet.