Jennifer L. Freed’s poems appear/are forthcoming in various journals including Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, MER Vox, Rust + Moth, and The Worcester Review. Her poem-sequence “Cerebral Hemorrhage” was awarded the 2020 Samuel Washington Allen Prize from the New England Poetry Club. She has recently completed a full-length manuscript based on the consequences of her mother's stroke in 2018. Please visit jfreed.weebly.com.