Gillian Wegener is the author of THIS SWEET HAPHAZARD (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017), THE OPPOSITE OF CLAIRVOYANCE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), and a chapbook, Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press, 2001). Wegener has won several awards for her work including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007 and the Zocalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener, a junior high teacher, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto, CA, where she is a cofounder of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the City of Modesto.