MARGO BERDESHEVSKY born in New York city, often lives and writes in Paris. Her newest collection is “It Is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat,” from Salmon Poetry. Her recent collection is “Kneel Said the Night (a hybrid book in half-notes)” from Sundress Publications. Her “Before The Drought,” from Glass Lyre Press (was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.) Her poem, "Somewhere Everywhere” was selected by the Academy of American Poets for the poem-a-day. Berdeshevsky is author as well of “Between Soul & Stone,” and “But a Passage in Wilderness” (Sheep Meadow Press.) Her book of illustrated stories, “Beautiful Soon Enough” received the first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award for Fiction Collective Two (University of Alabama Press.) Recipient of 2022 Grand Prize for Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, her other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her works appear in Poetry International, New Letters, The Night Heron Barks, Kenyon Review, Plume, Scoundrel Time, Cutthroat, The Collagist, Tupelo Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, Harbor Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The American Journal of Poetry, Jacar—One, Mānoa, Pirene’s Fountain, Big Other, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Bracken “Over Tea and Tears” for Ukraine, among many others. In Europe and the UK, her works have been seen in The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Wolf, Europe, Siècle 21, Confluences Poétiques, Recours au Poème, Levure Littéraire, Under the Radar. She has read from her books in London, Paris, New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and at literary festivals. Her “Letters from Paris” have appeared for many years in Poetry International online. For more information, kindly go to her website at: http://margoberdeshevsky.com and https://linktr.ee/instamargomargo