Dorothy Neagle was born and raised in South Central Kentucky, in the westernmost county in Appalachia, on unceded Cherokee land. A Yaddo fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee, she received a BA and MA in Design & Environmental Analysis from Cornell University, and has studied writing at Cornell, NYU, Columbia University, the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, the Hudson Valley Writers Center, and the Unterberg Poetry Center. Imagine a Woman (Gnashing Teeth Publishing) is her first book. She currently lives and writes poetry, memoir, and fiction in Hastings on Hudson, NY, on the traditional lands of the Lenape people. Follow along @sentencesaremyfave