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Cindy Veach

Cindy Veach is the author of three poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath, 2025), a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award; Her Kind (CavanKerry, 2021), an Eric Hoffer Award Montaigne Medal finalist; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry, 2017), a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read.” Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, AGNI, North American Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize, Cindy serves as poetry editor for MER—Mom Egg Review.