Anne Gruner is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose poetry has appeared in "Amsterdam Quarterly Review," "Honeyguide Literary Magazine," "Take 5ive Journal," "Beltway Poetry Quarterly," "Superpresent Magazine," "Plum Tree Tavern," "Humans of the World," "Jalmurra," "Written Tales," "Spillwords," "Topical Poetry," and "Old Mountain Press" anthologies. She is preparing her debut poetry chapbook on the changing climate. Her fiction and creative non-fiction appeared or are forthcoming in "Persimmon Tree," "Constellations: Journal of Poetry and Fiction," "Hippocampus Magazine," "Avalon Literary Review," "Silver Blade Magazine," "Chicken Soup for the Soul, "The Intelligencer," "The Cipher Brief," and "War on the Rocks."