Hilde Weisert’s poetry collection The Scheme of Things was published by David Robert Books in 2015. Ms. Weisert won the CALYX Journal’s 2008 Seventh Annual Lois Cranston Memorial Prize. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as Ms., Prairie Schooner, The Sun, and Southern Poetry Review. She is a Geraldine Dodge Poet and a 2009 and 2016 resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is also co-founder of the Society for Veterinary Medicine and Literature, promoting the reading of poetry in the veterinary medicine curriculum.