Gail Rudd Entrekin taught college English Literature/Creative Writing for 25 years and 
has published six books of poetry, including Change (will do you good), which was 
nominated for a California Book Award.  Poetry Editor of Hip Pocket Press, Entrekin 
edits the on-line journal of the environment Canary (canarylitmag.org). 

Her poems are widely published and have been finalists for the Pablo Neruda Prize and 
winner of the Western States Award and Women’s National Book Association Prize.  
They placed first runner-up for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, the Catamaran Poetry Prize 
and finalist for the Frontier Open Prize. 

An earlier version of her latest book, Walking Each Other Home, (Longship Press, 
2023) was a finalist for both the Blue Light Prize and the Richard Snyder Prize.  Her 
chapbook The Mother/Daughter Papers, Poems 1988-2025 was selected for 
publication in 2025 by Orchard Street Press.