Dale M. Kushner has been honored by a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and residencies at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute as a participant in their first writers’ conference on compassion and forgiveness. Her work has been widely published in literary journals including IMAGE, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, Witness, and Fifth Wednesday. Her most recent poetry collection, MORE ALIVE THAN LIONS ROARING, was a finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award at Utah State Press, the Prairie Schooner Book Competition, and the Agha Shahid Ali Prize