Becca Shaw Glaser is a writer, artist, activist, performer, gardener, a lover of swimming and growing things. Her poetry and fiction has been published in Black Clock,The Offing, Columbia Journal, Lemon Hound, Rascal, H.O.W., Two Serious Ladies, Birdfeast, Vinyl, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Alimentum, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Laurel Review, Quaint, and New South, among other publications. She is the co-editor and author of the activist manual, “Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out.” Other nonfiction work appears with The Icarus Project, Mad in America, The Buzz, Off Our Backs, Entropy, xoJane, The Maine Commons, Luna Luna and The Rumpus. She was interviewed for her art, activism and writing on Ahttakes. She is a graduate of the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies where she focused on historical and current political/personal trauma and healing, and theater, as well as Syracuse University’s Creative Writing MFA Program. She was a nonfiction editor at Salt Hill for several years, an editor of the Syracuse Peace Council’s newspaper, and illustrates and edits for various projects. She lives in Rockland.