Alise Versella is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominated contributing writer for Rebelle Society. She is the author of the full-length collection "When Wolves Become Birds" (Golden Dragonfly Press, 2021), as well as the chapbooks "A Psalm for the Weary" (Alien Buddha Press, 2023), "Tender is the Body" (Querencia Press, 2023), and "Maenads of the 21st Century" (Dancing Girl Press, 2023).Her work has been widely published in print journals and anthologies, including The Opiate, Luna Arcana, Perpetual Doom's Navigation to Nowhere: In Search of Paris, Texas, The Poetry Bus, White Stag Journal, Press Pause Press, and Ellipsis...Literature and Art Journal. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Sappho Prize for Poetry by Palette Poetry.Versella has collaborated with Women's Spiritual Poetry and is a proud contributor to the Lunar Codex. She has performed extensively across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the New York City Poetry Festival, and online via Zoom. Additionally, she has taught "Poetry as Power" workshops in libraries and schools.