Teresa Scollon is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her fourth collection, No Trouble Staying Awake, was published by Cornerstone Press in 2025. She is also author of Trees and Other Creatures, from Alice Greene & Co; To Embroider the Ground with Prayer, from Wayne State University Press; and a chapbook from Michigan Writers Cooperative Press. Scollon is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, alumna and former writer-in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy, and the 2018 Moveen Prize winner. She teaches the North Ed Writers Studio at Career Tech in Traverse City, Michigan, and co-edits the literary journal Dunes Review. See teresascollon.com.

This event will include an opening reading by Ellen Lord, author of Vigil.