Colleen Morton Busch’s debut poetry collection, Smolder, was chosen by Felicia Zamora to win Ex Ophidia Press’s 2025 Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Prize and will be published in summer 2026. A poem from the manuscript was a finalist for the Belleview Literary Review‘s Allman Prize for Poetry and will appear in the spring 2026 issue of the magazine. More info here.
