Ann A. Philips is a Maryland poet whose poems have appeared in Green Mountains Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Big Muddy, The Delmarva Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Gargoyle, The Humanistic Psychologist, The Northern Virginia Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her collection A Language the Land is Inventing (Wordtech, 2017) was honored by Beltway Poetry Quarterly as one of the ten best 2017 poetry collections from the Mid-Atlantic region. Ann serves on the poetry staff of The Florida Review.