1st Place

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Angie Trudell Vasquez is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, and the current City of Madison Poet Laureate (2020-2024). She received her MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2017. Her fourth collection of poetry, My People Redux, was published in January 2022. Websites: angietrudellvasquez.com and artnightbooks.com

Her chapbook can be purchased from Finishing Line Press.

2nd Place

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Thomas J. Erickson has authored five poetry books including The Lawyer Who Died in the Courthouse Bathroom (Parallel Prss) which was awarded second place in the 2014 WFOP Chapbook contest. His book Cutting the Dusk in Half is forthcoming from Bent Paddle Press. He is an attorney in Milwaukee where he is a member of the Hartford Avenue Poets.

3rd Place

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Elizabeth Tornes has published four award-winning poetry collections, Northern Skies (Muriel Press, 2022), Between the Dog and the Wolf (Five Oaks Press, 2016), New Moon (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Snowbound (Giiwedin Press, 2011). She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Colony for the Arts. Her poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies, including The American Poetry Journal, Boulevard, The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, The Missouri Review, North American Review, Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, and Solstice Literary Magazine. She has also published a collection of Ojibwe oral histories, Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders (2014, U. of Wisconsin Press). She lives in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.