Ellen Sazzman is a Pushcart nominated poet and a lawyer. She retired as a Senior Counsel from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Her poetry has recently been published in Peregrine, Delma...voir plusEllen Sazzman is a Pushcart nominated poet and a lawyer. She retired as a Senior Counsel from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Her poetry has recently been published in Peregrine, Delmarva Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Poetry South, Connecticut River Review, PANK, Ekphrastic Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Sow’s Ear, Lilith, Comstock Review, and CALYX, among others. She was awarded first place in the 2022 Dancing Poetry Festival, received an honorable mention in the 2019 Ginsberg poetry contest, was shortlisted for the 2018 O’Donoghue Poetry Prize, and was awarded first place in Poetica’s 2016 Rosenberg competition. Her debut poetry collection, The Shomer (2021), was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize and a semifinalist for the 2020 Elixir Press Antivenom Award, and for the 2019 Codhill Press Poetry Award.voir moins