Sheila Squillante is the author of the poetry collections, MOSTLY HUMAN, winner of the 2020 Wicked Woman Book Prize from BrickHouse Books, BEAUTIFUL NERVE, Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), and three chapbooks of poetry. She directs the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, where she is Executive Editor of The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her husband and their children.