Tasha Cotter's third collection of poetry Astonishments will be released in 2020 with FutureCycle Press. Her work has appeared in journals such as Contrary Magazine, NANO fiction, and Thrush. A graduate of the University of Kentucky and the Bluegrass Writers Studio, she is included in the 2018-2019 Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau. Her novel Us, in Pieces (with Christopher Green) was released in July 2019. She makes her home in Menlo Park, California. She is the past president of the Kentucky State Poetry Society.