Claudia Gary is a three-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and a 2013 semi-finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in such journals as American Arts Quarterly, Amsterdam Quarterly, Angle Journal of Poetry, Antiphon and many more. Her work has also been widely anthologised: in Villanelles, The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, and Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle. Claudia is a health science writer for vvaveteran.org, a composer of art songs and chamber music, and an online instructor of Villanelle, Sonnet, Meter and other topics at The Writer’s Center.