S Renay SandersAmerican poet S. Renay Sanders learned to love the spoken word amidst a family of Appalachian storytellers and musicians. She secretly wrote poems for years, but came out of the poetry closet with a piece in the Hessler Street Poetry Anthology> in 2010. Her poems have been included in anthologies published by the Writing Knights and Poet's Haven. Her work can also be found in ETERNAL SNOW (Nirala Publications, 2017), a worldwide anthology. Renay received a third place award for her poem, Awakened to Bear Witness of Sweet Atrocities in the 2012 Hessler Street Poetry Anthology. Noteworthy Travlin was the title poem of a broadside published by Night Ballet. Her work was selected to be included in the 2016-2017 Women of Appalachia project Women Speak. Most recently, Sanders is the author of DANCING IN PLACE: POEMS (Nirala Publications, 2020). A native Clevelander, her poems are inspired by the characters she encounters in life, her male-dominated family, husband, sons, grandsons and the beauty of the Cuyahoga Valley, where she now resides. Read More Read Less