Clela Dyess Reed is the author of seven collections of poetry: Books: Dancing on the Rim (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2009) and The Hero of the Revolution Serves Us Tea (Negative Capability Press, 2014), Or Current Resident (Aldrich Press, 2019). Chapbooks: Bloodline (Evening Street Press, 2009), Of Root and Sky (Pudding House Publications, 2010), Word Bully (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Silk (Evening Street Press, 2019), Helen Kay Chapbook winner. She has had poems published in The Cortland Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlanta Review, The Kentucky Review, Valparaiso Review, The Literati Review, and many others. When not traveling or shooing deer from her yard, she lives and writes with her husband in their woodland home near Athens, Georgia.