Jeannine Hall Gailey

Jeannine Hall Gailey is a writer with multiple sclerosis who served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She is the author of six books of poetry including Becoming the Villainess (2006); She Returns to the Floating World (2011; 2013); Unexplained Fevers (2013); The Robot Scientist’s Daughter (2015);  Field Guide to the End of the World (2016), winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize; and Flare, Corona (2023), a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Salon, Ploughshares, and Poetry.