Julene Tripp Weaver, a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle, worked in AIDS services for twenty-one years. Her third poetry collection, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, and won the Bisexual Book Award. Her next book, Slow Now With Clear Skies, published by MoonPath Press,will be released by June 2024. Widely published, other work appears in HEAL, Mad Swirl, Anti-Heroin Chic, Feels Blind, and recent anthologies: I Sing the Salmon Home, and Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice. www.julenetrippweaver.com