Jennifer M Phillips is a retired skydiver, scuba diver, and bonsai-grower, settled on Cape Cod, and has authored three chapbooks, Sitting Safe In the Theatre of Electricity, A Song of Ascents, and Sailing To the Edges, and a collection, Wrestling With the Angel (Wipf and Stock Pub., 2024). Phillips’ work has appeared in over 145 journals, and has been thrice-nominated for a Pushcart Poetry Prize, and 1st prize in the 2026 (The Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize) in the Orchard Street Press Poetry Competition.