June Sylvester Saraceno

June Sylvester Saraceno (’06): Her debut novel Feral, North Carolina, 1965 was published in 2019 from Southern Fried Karma Press. Her third full-length collection of poetry, The Girl From Yesterday, was released in January 2020 by Cherry Grove Collections. Previous poetry books include of Dirt and Tar, Cherry Grove Collections, 2014; Altars of Ordinary Light, Plain View Press, 2007; and a chapbook of prose poems, Mean Girl Trips, Pudding House Publications, 2006. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including Southwestern American Literature, Tar River Poetry, Steel Toe Review, Smartish Pace and many more. She is a professor and English Program Chair at Sierra Nevada College (SNC), director of the Writers in the Woods literary speaker series, founding editor of the Sierra Nevada Review, and founder of the annual Tahoe Poetry Slam. www.junesaraceno.com.