The Book Loft Presents: Ellen Austin-Li & Rikki Santer

An in-store signing with poets Ellen Austin-Li and Rikki Santer

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Ellen Austin-Li's poetry collection, Incidental Pollen—a 2023 Trio Award finalist, 2024 Wisconsin Poetry Series semi-finalist—is the runner-up to the 2023 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize from Madville Publishing. Finishing Line Press published her chapbooks Firefly and Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic. Her poetry appears in many journals & anthologies. She’s a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Ellen holds an MFA in Poetry from the Solstice program. She lives in Cincinnati, OH, where she hosts Poetry Night at Sitwell’s.



Rikki Santer's poetry has been published widely and has received many honors including several Pushcart and Ohioana book award nominations, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 2023 she was named Ohio Poet of the Year.

She is a member of the teaching artist roster of the Ohio Arts Council and a past vice-president of the Ohio Poetry Association. Her collection, Resurrection Letter was grand prize short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and her forthcoming collection, Shepherd’s Hour, won the Paul Nemser Book Prize from Lily Poetry Review Books.

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