Leona Sevick is the 2017 Press 53 Poetry Award Winner for her first full-length book of poems, Lion Brothers. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Little Patuxent Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Atlanta Review, and in The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks. She is provost at Bridgewater College in Virginia. Her website: https://leonasevick.com/