Annie Finch is a poet, cultural critic, and performance artist. Her eighteen books include Spells: New and Selected Poems and a ritual verse drama on abortion, Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams, along with works on poetics, meter, and witchcraft. Finch’s poems have  been published in the New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Paris Review, and the Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry and translated into numerous languages. She has inspired audiences at conferences, universities, and festivals with her words on poetry, feminism, and earth-centered spirituality, and her Poetry Witch rituals have shown at Deepak Homespace and American Opera Projects. Based in New York City and the Maine wilderness, she teaches meter and magic at PoetryWitchCommunity.org,