Jana-Lee Germaine is the recipient of the 2022 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, EcoTheo Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, New South, Sugar House Review, december, The Baltimore Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA from Emerson College and is a Senior Poetry Reader for Ploughshares. A survivor of domestic violence, she lives with her husband, four children, and four rescue cats in semi-rural Massachusetts.