Liberian born award winning poet, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is the author of five collections of poetry, including When the Wanderers Come Home, Where the Road Turns, The River is Rising, and Becoming Ebony. Her sixth collection of poems, "Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems," is forthcoming from Autumn House Press in 2020. Her work has appeared in Harvard Review, Harvard Divinity Review, Transition Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, among others, and her work has been translated in Italian, Spanish, and Finnish. She teaches Creative Writing and African Literature at Penn State Altoona. Mary Jane White, MFA Iowa Writers' Workshop, NEA Fellowships (in poetry and translation). Tsvetaeva translations: Starry Sky to Starry Sky (Holy Cow! Press, 1988) New Year's, an elegy for Rilke (Adastra Press, 2007); Poem of the Hill (The New England Review); Poem of the End (The Hudson Review), reprinted in Poets Translate Poets, (Syracuse 2013).
