Colleen Michaels is the author of Prize Wheel (Small Bites Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Passages North, The Paterson Review, Cider Press Review, Barrelhouse, and have been commissioned as installations for The Massachusetts Poetry Festival and the Trustees of Reservations. She hosts the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, bringing poetry to unlikely places like tattoo parlors and swimming pools. Yes, in the swimming pool.