Hilde Weisert
Hilde Weisert‘s poetry collection, The Scheme of Things, is due out in September 2015 from David Robert Books. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as The Cincinnati Review, Cortland Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, The Sun, and Ms. “Finding Wilfred Owen Again” was winner of the 2008 Lois Cranston Poetry Prize, http://www.calyxpress.org/2008CranstonWinners.htm published in CALYX and the Wilfred Owen Journal. She was a 2009 Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and is co-editor of the 2012 anthology Animal Companions, Animal Doctors, Animal People: Poems, essays, and stories on our essential connections from Ontario Veterinary College. Recent poems won honorable mention in the Robert Frost Foundation 2015 contest and the 2014 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and “The Pity of It” won second prize in the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers 2014 contest. She lives part-time in Chapel Hill, NC and in Sandisfield, MA.