Catherine Abbey Hodges is the 2015 winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press for her book Instead of Sadness and the author of three other full-length collections: Empty Me Full (Gunpowder Press, 2024), In a Rind of Light (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2020) and Raft of Days (Gunpowder Press, 2017). Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in such venues as Narrative, Plume, SALT, RockPaperPoem, Tar River Poetry, and CALYX. English Professor Emeritus at Porterville College, Catherine writes, edits, teaches privately and collaborates with musician Rob Hodges on ancestral Yokuts land.