Gail Mazur’s 8 poetry collections include Forbidden City, Figures in A Landscape, , Zeppo’s First Wife, winner of the Massachusetts Book Prize, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, finalist for the National Book Award, and Land’s End: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in 2020. She lives in Provincetown and Cambridge, Massachusetts where she was founder and long-time director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series.