J.C. Todd’s recent books are Beyond Repair, a special selection for the Able Muse Press Award, and The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press), an Eric Hoffer finalist. Honors include the Rita Dove Poetry Prize, Poetry Society of America finalist, Poetry Society of United Kingdom ‘highly commended’, and fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and artist residency programs. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Mezzo Cammin, The Paris Review and other journals. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A bilingual collection of the poems in Lithuanian and English will be published in October 2024.