Miriam Calleja is an award-winning Pushcart-nominated poet, writer, workshop leader, and translator. She has hosted community generative writing workshops in Europe and the US for the past 10 years. She is the author of three poetry collections, two chapbooks, and several collaborative works. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and in translation worldwide. She has been Highly Commended for a translated poem by the Stephen Spender Trust. Her latest chapbook is titled Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence (BottleCap Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in platform review, Odyssey, Taos Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation, humana obscura, and elsewhere. Miriam is from Malta and currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Read more on miriamcalleja.com and Permission to Write.