Janine Certo is the author of four award-winning poetry books, three full-length poetry collections: O Body of Bliss, winner of the Longleaf Press Book Contest in Poetry (Longleaf Press, 2023), Elixir, winner of both the New American Poetry Prize and the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize (New American Press and Bordighera Press, 2021), and In the Corner of the Living, runner-up for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award (2017); as well as the poetry chapbook, Home Altar, winner of the Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023). She is also author of a book of poetry scholarship, Children Writing Poems: Poetic Voices in and out of School (Routledge, 2018).  A winner of Nimrod International Journal’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, her poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, Vallum, and others. She is an associate professor at Michigan State University and assistant poetry editor at Italian Americana.