Cynthia Gallaher
Cynthia Gallaher, a Chicago-based poet, is author of four poetry collections, including Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs and Spices, and three chapbooks, including Drenched. Her award-winning nonfiction/memoir/ creativity guide is Frugal Poets’ Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren’t a Poet. One of her poems will be sent on NASA’s flight to the south pole of the moon later this decade. Gallaher’s new hybrid memoir, Match Heads: My Conversations with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, will be published in 2027 by Southern Illinois University Press.