Alissa Sammarco is a writer and attorney from Cincinnati. Her journey has taken her across the country and back home to Ohio. Alissa’s poems capture the extraordinary of our everyday lives. In 2025, her chapbook, Moon Landin Day, won the International Impact Book Award. April 2025 marks her first full length book, The Waiting Room. Her works include 3 prior chapbooks and poems in Main Street Rag, Sheila-Na-Gig, Black Moon Magazine, Quiet Diamonds, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and elsewhere. www.AlissaSammarco.com; Instagram @AlissaSammarcoWrites.