Tafisha A. Edwards is author of two chapbooks: In the Belly of the Mirror (Telemagenta Press, 2021) and The Bloodlet (Phantom Books, 2016) winner of the Breitling Chapbook Prize. Her collection Asunder was a finalist for the 2022 The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a 2021 Rubys Artist Grant and a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Regional Artist Award. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Apogee Journal, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review,