Lois Roma-Deeley’s most recent poetry collection is Like Water in the Palm of My Hand (2022). Her previous books include The Short List of Certainties, winner of the Jacopone da Todi Book Prize (2017); High Notes (2010)--a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist; northSight (2006); Rules of Hunger (2004). Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, nationally and internationally, including Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series, Post Road, Spillway, The Columbia Poetry Review and many more. She’s Associate Editor of the poetry journal Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry and is Poet Laureate of Scottsdale, Arizona. (2021-2024). www.loisroma-deeley.com