Randi Ward is a poet, translator, lyricist, and photographer from Belleville, West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and has twice won the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Prize. Ward founded the Parkersburg Poetry Series, served as a judge for West Virginia’s Poetry Out Loud, and as a Fine Arts and Spoken Word juror for the Women of Appalachia Project. Her work has been featured on Folk Radio UK, National Public Radio, and PBS NewsHour.