Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose is winner of the 2021 Rattle Chapbook Prize for Imago, Dei, which was included for subscribers with the spring issue of Rattle. Her poetry and prose appear in The Atlantic, The Sun, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Weekly Humorist, Mom Egg Review, and other journals and collections. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is also the author of the chapbook Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021). A professor of English, her writing and scholarship focus on myths of gender and sex in literature and popular culture. She also facilitates writing-as-therapy workshops for breast cancer survivors in Rochester, New York, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and five rescue animals.

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https://www.elizabethjohnstonambrose.com/

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This Week's Prompt:

Write a poem about food or drink.

Next Week’s Prompt:

A woman walks down a dirt road late at night.

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