A former high school English teacher who left the classroom in 2012 to write full-time, Catherine Arra is a poet native to New York's Hudson Valley. She is the author of Writing in the Ether (Dos Madres Press, 2018), (Women in Parentheses) (Kelsay Books, 2019), Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Maric Einstein (Finishing Line Press, 2020), Deer Love (Dos Madres Press, 2021), and Solitude, Tarot & the Corona Blues (Kelsay Books, 2022), along with several chapbooks. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she leads writing groups in the Hudson Valley.