Carine TopalCarine Topal, born and raised in New York, earned an MA from New York University. She currently lives in the Southern California desert. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as The Best of the Prose Poem, Scrivener Creaive Review, Caliban, Greensboro Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and many others. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she was awarded residency at Hedgebrook, and a fellowship to study in St. Petersburg, Russia. She won the 2007 Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award from California Arts and Letters, from which a special edition chapbook, Bed of Want, was published. Her 3rd collection of poetry, In the Heaven of Never Before, was published in December, 2008, by Moon Tide Press. In the same year she was honored with the Excellence in Arts Award from the City of Torrance, California. In 2015 Carine was the recipient of the Briar Cliff Review Poetry Award, and weeks later, won the Palettes and Quills 4th Biennial Chapbook Contest for Tattooed, poems in the voices of the perpetrators, victims, and survivors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE is her 4th collection of poetry. She teaches poetry and memoir in the Palm Springs and Los Angeles areas. Read More Read Less