Charity Gingerich is from Uniontown, OH. Her first collection of poems, After June, won The Hopper poetry prize (Green Writers Press, 2019). Currently, she teaches ESL to international business persons and their families. Gingerich has received a poetry scholarship from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference (2016) and a residency from the Vermont Studio Center (2019). Her work has appeared in journals such as FIELD, the Kenyon Review, Arts & Letters, Ruminate, and Indiana Review, among others.