Newport, Oregon resident Lana Hechtman Ayers is a cat mama, dog mama, sky-watcher,

recovering coffee-addict, and former New Yorker. She writes poems in a room over the garage.

Her latest collection of poems, When All Else Fails, has just been released by The Poetry Box

Press.

Ayers’ poems appear in such places as Rattle, The London Reader, Peregrine, The MacGuffin,

and Verse Daily. In addition to When All Else Fails, she is author of six previous full-length

poetry collections, and has two more forthcoming: Overtures (Kelsay Books, August 2023) and

The Autobiography of Rain (Fernwood Press, August 2024). She’s also published Time flash:

Another Me, a romantic time travel novel. A sequel is in the works.

Lana leads generative writing workshops online in the Amherst method, helps poets assemble

their own collections, facilitates a Zoom Poetry Book Club, and manages three poetry presses,

Concrete Wolf, MoonPath Pres, and World Enough Writers, where she has shepherded over 100

poetry titles into the world.

She spends entirely too many hours watching HGTV and solving cryptograms with her spouse.

Her favorite color is the swirl of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. Visit her online at

LanaAyers.com where you can sign up for a weekly favorite poem (and occasionally one of her

own) to your email inbox with her Poem After Poem Newsletter.

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