Kay Cosgrove is the author of Anybody Home? (Blue Edge Books 2023). She received a BA from Fairfield University, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in American Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. She is the recipient of awards from The Academy of American Poets, Inprint Houston, and The Westchester Review. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, the American Poetry Review Review, Prairie Schooner, and EPOCH Magazine, among other journals. She lives in Philadelphia.