Jennifer L Freed is the author of When Light Shifts, a finalist for the 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book award and the 2025 Medal Provocateur, and short-listed for the 2025 Eric Hoffer award. Recent poetry appears in Atlanta Review, Rust and Moth, Sheila-na-Gig, Vox Populi, and What the House Knows. She lives in Massachusetts.