Catherine Arra is a Hudson Valley poet and former high school English teacher who left the classroom in 2012 to write full-time. 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 Marić Einstein (Finishing Line Press, 2020), Deer Love (Dos Madres Press, 2021), and Solitude, Tarot & the Corona Blues (Kelsay Books, 2022), along with three chapbooks. Her debut collection draws on family memory, immigrant heritage, and Sicilian ancestry. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she teaches part-time in New York's Hudson Valley and leads local writing groups.