Yiskah Rosenfeld (’01, ’03, ’18) holds an MFA in poetry from Mills College and an MA in jurisprudence and social policy from UC Berkeley; she is also a proud rabbinical school dropout. Her debut full-length collection, Tasting Flight (Madville Publishing, 2024), was a finalist for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, runner-up for the Arthur Smith Prize, and honorable mention recipient for the Louis Poetry Award. Naked Beside Fish (Finishing Line Press, 2024), is an ekphrastic chapbook. A Pushcart Prize nominee, awards include the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and the Reuben Rose Memorial Prize, runner up for the Jeff Marks Poetry Prize, and, most recently, a 2023 Frontier Poetry Roots & Roads Prize. Her poetry appears in Lilith Magazine, The Seattle Review, The Bitter Oleander, Rattle, Slippery Elm, December Magazine, and elsewhere, as well as anthologies such as Why to These Rocks, Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, and Wild Gods: An Anthology of Ecstatic Poetry. Kansas born and raised, Yiskah currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she balances solo parenting with teaching workshops on feminism, spirituality, and creativity.