April Goldman is a poet living in Lake Tahoe, California. Her interests include ecopoetics and ecofeminism, disability studies and mental illness, nonhuman animal rights, and her dogs Lloyd, Pinky, and Cashew. She was a winner of the 2022 92NY Discovery Poetry Contest, earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston, and has attended Bread Loaf, Community of Writers and Napa Valley Writers conferences. Recent poems appear in Best American Poetry 2022, Ploughshares, The Massachusetts Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. She is working on her first collection. Please say hello on instagram @aprileli or email aprileliza@gmail.com.