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